SLO-MO SWEET; Castle Rock-WA

70-degrees by noon 🌞; it was a gorgeous Day.

My handsome husband gave me the princess treatment 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 by taking me for an ice cream in Kelso … completely by 🚘 backroads (crossing the freeway at Headquarters/Pleasant Hill Overpass & again, at Pleasant Hill/Ostrander overpass) until we reached Kelso = surprise #1

Windows open.

Instead of Metallica, Deep Purple tunes 🎶 bounced of the interior of Betsy's cab = surprise #2

Deep Purple-Best of Hits 2024 Collection--Celebrated:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8QznomgxPE&list=RDY8QznomgxPE&start_radio=1)

We turned off N Pacific Hwy, onto Holcomb Loop Rd = surprise #3. I like this road & have driven it many times "just because". The road climbed up, up, up. Sun-warmed scented leaves 🌞🌳🍃 and pungent evergreen resin 🌲 filling the country air. A road that stretched on & on with spotty houses here and there. Yellow butterflies flitting everywhere 🦋 The atmosphere was definite slo-mo sweet.

It was wonderful!

I love scenic country, backroad drives 🚘😁👏

Kelso DQ by way of backroads: Old Pacific Hwy, Bond Rd., Pleasant Hill Rd., & the hill country of Holcomb Rd. that drops into N Kelso-WA by the Huntington Middle School.

Holcomb Loop Road; Kelso-WA