If you take highway 17 north from Moses Lake, you'll eventually get to Soap Lake. This is a sleepy little town and a good place to stop if you need to stretch.
Before you get there, if you're paying attention, you'll notice the rocks littering the plains the highway cuts through. Not just the odd rock here and there, but thousands and thousands seemingly dropped out of the sky.
They were actually dumped by the flood from many miles 'upstream' and now the area is known as the Ephrata Fan, with the city of Ephrata a few miles to the west.
North of Soap Lake is where it gets interesting though. Almost every time I turned a corner, my jaw dropped and I had to be disciplined about not stopping at every opportunity. What the pictures won't do justice to is the scale - just remember the floods peaked at 2000 feet of water.
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