Subject: HWY 2 (was Re: request for info: where is it??)
From: timr@sco.COM (Bad Hurts Value)
Date: 1990-11-05, 20:51
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: timr (the gifted and the damned)

In article <1504@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> hutch@hutch.intel.com (Stephen Hutchison) writes:
> ><...>
> >I recall him saying it was 2 hours east of Spokane on HWY 2...

can anyone confirm this?

> >except that HWY 2 does NOT go due east, and I'm not convinced
> >it even passes thru Spokane.

it does.  i been on it many times (years ago)--it originates in Everett
(about 30 miles north of Seattle) and heads east.  it goes through my
birthplace of Leavenworth, crosses the Columbia at Wenatchee, then heads
across to Spokane.  from there it goes about 30 miles north, then 15
miles north-northeast before it's crosses over into Idaho at Newport.

> >However, there IS a highway which goes due east from Spokane,

interstate 90.

> >and 2 hours takes you to St Regis, which is in Montana.

indeed.

> ><...>
> >However, the climate in that area is NOTHING like the Twin Peaks climate.
> >It's still deserty and cold and not a lot of rainfall...
> ><...>

i think everything in Twin Peaks but the Idaho border reference puts
it in the Cascade mountains somewhere.  i had the same idea as Tim
Shippert that the Twin Peaks Washington state is "squished up on the
western side of the Cascades" (mayhaps the giant did it to make sure
Cooper showed up).
that still doesn't explain the 2 hours east of Spokane bit, but it
does a lot else.

-tim(whereami?)r
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