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Olympia is in the Rockies, between the Montana/Wyoming/Idaho area. I'll quote from the e-mail where I asked Seuzz about it:



It's better to use a charter plane to reach Olympia from SF than trying on the road, but you can certainly use the Interstate for it. A trip from Columbus to Denver takes about 18 hours via car, which including pit stops and sleep time is roughly 2 days. (Maybe 3 if you wanna do sightseeing.) The Appalachians are on the opposite direction - closer to New York than to Colorado or the western side of the Midwest. As far as I know, one of the traits of the Midwest is that it's pretty much all valleys and lakes - you'd need to go to the boundaries of the Midwest to find mountain ranges like the Appalachians, or resort to solitary mountains or hills. There's an argument for Minnesota which has a couple peaks, but if looking for a mountain range, it's either the Rockies or the Appalachians.