"Where are we off to Snack?"

"It's Mount Rainier National Park!"

After setting up camp, it was time for a ranger talk about wildlife in the park. The outdoor ampitheater was just a short distance from their site in the Cougar Rock Campground.

Narada Falls is one of the park's best-known waterfalls, dropping 188-feet along the Paradise River.

"There it is!"

The bovines peer up at Mount Rainier from the along the Paradise River Valley.

Lunch and Snack visit the new Henry M. Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise. The new building replaced the old "flying saucer" visitor center that wasn't very energy efficient.

"I think I kind of liked the old center better. This is nice, but the old one had moxie."

Clouds were starting to obscure the volcano so it was time to head on out of the park.

The next stop was Yakima, where the cows caught sight of a sports bar and restaurant with a neon-lit revolving man shooting a gun. An interesting spectacle.

The Yakima River Valley is world famous for growing hops, so Lunch and Snack took time to examine a hop orchard.

"What variety do you think these are Lunch?'

"I sure don't know, but there are hop plants as far as the eye can see."

Heading off to the Palouse of southeast Washington, the bovines stop to admire the hills lining the river valley.

"What is all this stuff?"

A stop in the hamlet of Washtucna revealed a roadside display of aging farm implements once used for area agriculture.

A highlight of the day was a stop at Palouse Falls State Park. Water from the Palouse River drops 198 feet into a pool below.

The Palouse River carved a spectacular canyon and much of it is within the state park boundary.

At the confluence of the Palouse and Snake rivers, the cows happened upon the historic railroad trestle near the community of Starbuck. The Joso Bridge was built by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1910 and is 3,920 feet long, making it one of the longest railroad bridge spans still in operation in the United States.

Near the base of the Joso Bridge, Lunch and Snack take a break from the road to rest in the shade at Lyons Ferry State Park along the Palouse River.

"Moooo! Shade at last!"

Next stop, Walla Walla and its collection of whimsical sculptures in the downtown area. The cows wondered what this frog must have been thinking.

Just down the street from the frog, Lunch and Snack found a bronze dog balancing things on his nose. They couldn't resist a chance to have a little fun with it.

On a more somber note, the bovines find a statue of Piupiumaksmaks, meaning Yellow Bird, who was the head chief of the Walla Walla Tribe in the first half of the 1800s.