Sitting at an overlook above the clouds facing Mount Rainier

Coffee going cold above the clouds.

Washington

The Overlook Above Rainier

  • First driven2022
  • Photos here7

Some mornings you slide the van door open and Rainier is just there, enormous and patient, close enough to feel. We sat above the clouds while the coffee went cold and didn’t say much. Washington kept doing that to us.

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