If you’ve spent any time on this blog, you know how much I love really long drives. Organized tours, spontaneous road trips, late night cruising through the city…the longer the better. Nothing is better to me than when Meg, the boys, or a good friend want to come along for the ride.

The PNWR plans great day tours, but nothing compares to their multi-day adventures. When I saw they had planned a three day tour to Sun Mountain Lodge, I signed up and booked the resort. Then I told Meg about it, and she was down to be my plus-one…game on.

On Friday, we started the tour with a beautiful drive over the North Cascades Highway with stops at Diablo Lake and Washington Pass Overlook to stretch our legs and admire the scenery. On Friday evening we explored the town of Winthrop, and had a great dinner at the Sun Mountain Lidge restaurant.

On Saturday, Meg decided to stick around the lodge, we had our own cabin by the lake, while I joined some folks from the Inland Northwest Region on an epic day or twisty roads. It was honestly one of the best days of driving that I can remember. For the most part we had the roads to ourselves. Saturday night was a fun group dinner and then we took the long way home on Sunday to enjoy as many great driving roads as we could find.