Frommer's Washington State
Chapter One
The Best of Washington
Despite what you might have heard to the contrary, there is more to Washington
state than lattes, rain, and Microsoft. Washington is actually such a diverse state that
it could have served as a model for the song "America the Beautiful." In the eastern
high desert country, beautiful spacious skies are as big as Montana's (part of the Rocky
Mountains reaches into Washington). In the western part of the state, the Cascade
mountains turn majestically purple at sunset. In the Palouse country of the southeastern
corner of the state, amber waves of grain stripe the steep hillsides. In the Yakima,
Wenatchee, and Chelan valleys, the fruited plains produce the world's most familiar
apples (and some pretty good wine, too). With an inland sea across the Olympic
Peninsula from the Pacific, the sun in Washington also shines from sea to shining sea.
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