11/28/22 I need to begin this final post with a prolog I'm adding from my sons apartment in Seattle, Wa. He is in Japan and had been planning the trip for many months with the hope Japan would lift some of their Covid travel restrictions and they did. At some point in my trip I offered to come cat sit for him rather than put his cat in a boarding location and he took me up on the idea so I've done a small amount of exploring. The weather has been mostly clear with minimal rain but it has been cold and there is a chance of snow most of this week. The photos I posted from Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 were taken on a day where west of the Pass it was sunny and clear and at the summit and east was socked in and the moisture in the clouds was freezing on the Fir trees. I had hoped to add some mountain photos from here, especially of snow covered Mt. Rainier but the haze and sometimes smoke has stymied my attempts. Flying in at one point I could see Mt. Rainier, Mt. ...