Started with a long walk on Kalaloch Beach. Lots of seagulls, black sand, hugh trees trunks, crab shells, surf, wind, and rain. It was beautiful. We lunched in Aberdeen then headed for Mt St Helens. The drive up to Johnston Ridge is a long beautiful highway. At the top the view is incredible. It was cold and wet and windy but inside the visitor’s center we learned so much of the geology and history of this awesome volcano.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
Many times I have seen Mount St. Helens from the airplane flying into Portland OR. I never made it there though. Very impressive photos.