Road Trip Blog
-It has occurred to me that we have spent 30 days or 720 hours breathing fresh air. We prepare and eat our meals al fresco, hike the wild spaces and sleep with the chill of night and the night sounds of forests and meadows blowing […]
The rains have arrived. We have left the Olympic Peninsula and navigated our way to the edge of the world where the great mouth of the Columbia River meets the roiling waters of the Pacific. An unlucky place for many an explorer. The dangerous and […]
Our six days at Kalaloch campground came to an end and we decided it was time to venture over to the east side of The Olympic, to Port Angeles and indulge in being around the human race again. We were pretty grungy at this point […]
After all the unfettered beauty we have witnessed in our time on the road, I didn’t think I could continue to be blown away by the natural world. My experience of the raw wildness of the Olympic Peninsula is in a different category of its […]
The Hoh Rainforest is a wild place. If you’ve ever been, you know its’a trip into Jurassic Park territory. Everything is super sized; trees, leaves, mushrooms, beetles, ferns. The multiple hues of green range from the bright lime green of a knife fern to the […]
Literally. We are driving through Aberdeen, birthplace of Kurt Cobain. on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. The town welcome sign reads Aberdeen: Come as you Are. I’m pumped. It’s always been a big ‘to do’, a trip to the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula. […]
That was their tagline. I’d discovered Mountain Home Lodge when I was looking at a list of best places to eat in the state of Washington. (My birthday dinner at Arrowleaf Bistro in Winthrop was one of them!) and I happened upon the name […]
“Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When mornings and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.” -William Stafford I’d been looking forward to the Cascade Mountains. I […]
Sometimes you just get a feeling that you should do something different then you planned. We intended to leave Missoula and boogie up to to Coeur d’alene, unsure of where we wanted to camp. Then we looked at the map and saw that we could […]
We have been on the road for 23 days and we are finally rolling into civilization after weeks of wilderness. Mark is scheduled to take his test on September 25th in Helena, Montana. It was a serendipitous choice, we literally looked at the map and […]