Here I sit in drizzly but beautiful Edmonds (greater Seattle) visiting disease vectors grandkids, and muse on riding out to the PNW sometime rather than flying.   A planned visit by German relatives next year has been postponed, so now thinking about making a month of it sometime next year.    I plotted a route that simply took us “straight” from home at the top of Virginia to Seattle (Washington State family), then Portland (Oregon family), then home again with a stop in Daviess County, Ken