We did not get to see everything that we wanted to see, but what we did see was pretty wonderful. Wildfires just inside the western entrance to the park blocked the path east and kept us from visiting much of the park. Actually, we had planned to stay in the park for four nights until receiving …
The locals refer to Mt. Rainier as “The Mountain,” and at a little over 14,400′ it is ever-present in the park. It is dramatic in profile and appearance with some 25 glaciers bleeding down its sides with a snow-capped summit. During our six days in the area we drove to different areas of the park …
Well here we are again… in an NPS campground with no Internet connectivity and no Verizon signal. I’ve grown accustomed to this situation now as we’ve encountered it before, but it sure is frustrating, especially when I am trying to catch up on the posts from our travels! In order to get this posted, I …
Here are a few of my photos from our recent visit to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle. We spent three days in Seattle before flying up to Alaska.
What is a Cascadia National Enduro Championship event? First, ride your mountain bike eight miles up a steep mountain. At the top, take a quick drink of water, collect your thoughts, and then plunge down that same mountain on dirt and rock single track through dense forest — hopping tree roots, whipping around tight corners on banked …
A Day at the Races – Cascadia National Enduro Championship Read More »
Olympic National Park is one of the last unspoiled and untamed places in the United States. Its landscape of rugged peaks, steep cliffs, dense forests, and wild rivers made it difficult to navigate and settle back when the European Americans were first on the scene here in the late 1800s, although Native American hunter-gatherer tribes had lived …
Olympic NP had it all: lush vegetation, beautiful wildflowers, soaring mountains, misty beaches and majestic wildlife. Here are a few of the many images that I captured over our eight-day stay in the park. If you click on a photo, you can see a larger version of it. You can also use the arrows at …
We so cherish the time we get to see friends and family when our travel adventures bring us anywhere near them, and so it was once again this weekend that we got to take a Time Out from our national park visits to spend some time with a branch of the Jolly clan who lives in Washington. Niece …
With our hike out to Cape Alava in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington on Sunday afternoon we’ve now made it to all four Extreme Points in the contiguous United States. You may recall from my previous post [Traveling to the Extreme Points of the U.S.] that as we’re traveling to all 59 of our U.S. national …
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