I have to travel to Eastern Washington on Monday for a work trip. It's a 400 mile drive and I've decided to take the Jag to make the trip a little more enjoyable. Instead of crossing the state on I-90, I'm going to go on State Road 20 which is a much smaller highway that crosses the Cascade Mountains further north and goes over the Sherman Pass at nearly 5,600 ft. I've heard that this is a beautiful drive, but have never done it before.

I was a little apprehensive to take the jag at first. My normal commute to work is 4 1/2 miles. I bought the car last September, and in the intervening 8 months, I have only put about 1,250 miles on it. I will probably be driving that much again in the next two weeks. I was worried about what if the car needs service or has any problems while I'm gone. However, other than some frozen lug nuts that had to be drilled off the I got new tires, the car has never given me any trouble whatsoever. I'm taking it. After all, car are bought to be driven, no.

I'll see about taking some photos of the jag up in the mountains.

 

You'll enjoy the run, and the roads are in pretty good shape up there.
I drove it last year all the way to Tiger, then down into Spokane. Its a road you XJR was built for! Have fun!
V

 

Well, an awesome drive over the mountains yesterday. I did just under 400 miles crossing most of the state of Washington. I had to go for three different mountain passes, one at 5400 feet, one at 4000 feet, and one at 5600 feet. The car climbed up those mountains like it was going over flat ground. Also, it didn't matter uphill or down the temperature gage never moved above the halfway mark. To top it all off, I averaged 24.0 miles per gallon. In a 390 hp full-size sedan, gotta love it!

I'm going to try and post a few pictures here, but I'm doing this from my phone.

 

Sweet!

 

Spectacular route. Definitely Jaguar territory.

Graham

 

Nice pictures

 

I've got the weekend off, so I drove up to Kelowna, BC, Canada. Wow, what a drive. Spectacular!

And Kelowna is so beautiful.

I took the Jag on a vineyard crawl.





Also, one of the bookshops had the English Jaguar World magazine. The price was steep, but I normally only get these about once a year.

 

.....and you didn't invite us...... Sniff...

 

Well I'm in spokane if you have problems call me I fully loaded with tools 509-992-9528

 

That's awfully kind of you. I am back home now and the trip went very well. I do appreciate your offer though.

Things like this remind me that this Jag forum really is one of the nicest places on the internet.