Enter my friend Doug C. who’s also in this year’s IBR. I tell him about my hairbrained scheme of a Spring ride and he says, “Can I go?”

Sure! Sounds like a great ride to do together. It’s not for points, it’s a good ride to hone our stop and location hunting skills, and gives us two cameras to shoot different angles.

Another thing I thought was it would be a natural to add the state capitol, so it will be a round 40 stops including the State Capitol Building.

Departure plan is to leave Thursday evening, May 3, meet up in or around Chehalis, get a decent night’s sleep, and then start in Chehails Friday morning. If we’re fortunate, we’ll be done with Prosser in slightly less than 48 hours on Sunday.

Here’s the route plan to date (35 is an abitrary point to make sure we don’t get routed through Idaho):

Now it’s time to start doing my anti-rain dance…….