Driving Seattle to Houston in December. Good or bad?

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On 12/31/2017 at 12:04 AM, Spurshot said:

Funny how things workout.  Earlier, i said I'd fly such a trip.  Since then, i found a hunting dog up in northern Idaho,  just an hour south of Spokane.  I decided  to drive the trip to pickup the dog the first week of December.   Since there was a storm moving across the Pacific northwest,  rather than take the most direct route ,  we took I-15 from LA to Ogden, where we hit snow and spent the night. The next day was mostly uneventful on up thru Twin Falls to Nampa, then to Lewistown Idaho and we had blue skies for the remainder of the trip.  The return trip included a diversion up to Coeur de Alene, since my wife really wanted to see the lake.  5 years ago,  we were at the same kennel near Lewistown and i didn't  take my wife's hint that she wanted to see the lake just a bit further up the road, and I have regretted it ever since.  So, when we got that close, i didn't care if she still wanted to see it or not, we were going to Lake Coeur de Alene no matter what.  We saw the lake and walked the shore with the dogs, then hi-tailed it thru Spokane,  down thru Tri-cities, and spent the night in The Dalles on the Columbia river.   The next day, we heade west along the river to Portland,  jumped on interstate 5, and heade south, making it to the Sierra Nevada brewery restaurant in Chico for dinner. We made it home in LA the next afternoon.   Nice little unplanned 3000 mile road trip in 5 days

Sounds like you had a good trip.  I don't doubt I would have enjoyed driving to Houston for this Christmas visit but we just weren't certain. We saved money by flying which means our next visit can be sooner.  We've discussed getting a trailer for many years  and discovered on this past trip that the beaches of Galveston would be a wonderful destination!