Free coffee module helps fuel summer highway trips, keeps drivers alert

Drowsy pushing causes thousands of crashes any year as people deposit off while streamer home from a prolonged highway trip.

In Washington state, teams of volunteers are assisting perk adult a holiday rush with a prohibited crater of coffee. It’s a village use with advantages good over a interstate.

Need a small pick-me-up? Plug a Smokey Point rest area into your GPS and compensate a revisit to Jane Earp.

“We have coffee, tea, prohibited chocolate, prohibited cider, and right now we’re carrying homemade base beer, so I’ve got we covered,” she pronounced Monday.

Earp is one of a volunteers assisting fuel a summer transport rush along Interstate 5. You can find this giveaway coffee use during some-more than 3 dozen WSDOT sites.

The state provides a space, and volunteers like Earp, who paint several non-profits, move a beans and a lot more.

“We bake pie, we make zucchini bread, we make cookies, we do a opposite cakes,” pronounced Earp, who represents a Granite Falls Senior Center.

They even have treats for dogs. Drivers don’t have to lapse a preference with a money concession to a non-profit groups, though many do.

“All of a donations go toward a bills and a building fund, since we’re adding on new carpeting during a moment. We’re improving a building all a time, since it is owned by a seniors,” Earp said.

Over on a southbound side, Harvest Vision Ministries perked adult drivers on their approach to Seattle. Proceeds assistance account method overdo trips to Mexico and Africa.

“They’re assisting us some-more than we are assisting them, definitely,” pronounced proffer Joanna Hunt, as she poured another crater of coffee.

Here are a many renouned proffer coffee sites, as identified by WSDOT:

I-5, north of Fife:
#1: Seatac (NB)

I-5, north of Everett:
#2: Smokey Point (SB)
#3: Smokey Point (NB)

I-5, south of Olympia:
#4: Scatter Creek (NB)
#5: Maytown (SB)

US 2, west of Leavenworth:
#6: Nason Creek

I-5, north of Castle Rock:
#7: Toutle River (SB)
#8: Toutle River (NB)

I-5, north of Vancouver:
#9: Gee Creek (SB)

I-90, west of Ellensburg:
#10: Indian John Hill (EB)
#11: Indian John Hill (WB)

I-90, west of Spokane:}
#12: Sprague Lake (EB)
#13: Sprague Lake (WB)

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