We have had a delightful 3 days in the North Cascades.  We will post pictures and details later. Yesterday we awoke to the news of wildfires in Eastern Washington.  Our plans were to leave the North Cascades and head east towards the tip of northern Idaho to Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana.  We were not terribly concerned since the fires at that time were not in the route we were going to be taking east.  Things changed quickly when we stopped in a small visitors center yesterday while sightseeing in the Cascades and saw a handwritten sign on the door notifying us that the road we were planning to take is now closed.  It is the ONLY road east through the Cascades, no detours.  We have monitored the situation throughout the night and this morning the road remains closed with no sign of opening any time in the near future.  The fire is 0% contained at this time.  So we are now contemplating our future.  Do we take the LONG roundabout way back through Seattle and east on I-90 and then up to Montana?  Do we give up our dream of seeing Glacier National Park and cancel our plans?  Do we wait it out and hope the road opens in a week or so knowing we have to be in Redmond, Oregon in 4 weeks for a big rally?  What would you do?  What should we do?  One should always expect the unexpected when traveling.  Stay tuned.  We will give you our decision in the next blog.