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Left Baker City headed for Salt Lake City on I-84 driving through a lot of open country. Made a stop in Hagerman, Idaho to visit the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Park and learn about the evolution and extinction of the horse in North America. Unfortunately the fossil...
Today we explored the waterfalls of Columbia Gorge. We drove the Historic Highway and stopped at every waterfall taking little hikes and lots of pictures. Except at Talkeena Falls where we hiked to the top of the ridge! At Multnomah we had a delicious lunch at the...
See Lewis & Clark Video See Maritime Museum Video It dawned a beautiful day. We found an independent bakery and got scones, cookies, and snack bars then headed from Vancouver, WA to Astoria, OR. We visited the Columbia River Maritime Museum, wondered if our...
See 1980 Eruption Video See USGA Video 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...
Started the day with a walk in the rain on Rialto Beach. It seemed like a scene from science fiction, perhaps Oo Topos. It was unlike any beach we had ever experienced. Instead of shells and white sand it had water smoothed pebbles and rocks. Instead of condos, it was...
The weather wasn't conducive to a day of touring Olympic National Park. It was overcast, misty, rainy. Nonetheless we drove up to the Hurricane Ridge Lookout. Mt Olympus peeked out of the clouds but not for long enough to get a picture. We drove through some...
Spent today in Mt Rainier National Park. We drove to Paradise, drinking in fabulous views of Rainier's snowy peak. From there we hiked the 2.5 miles to Glacier overlook and marveled at the glacial flows and the beauty of the glacial lake. Back in the parking lot we...
"The Power of Water" was today's theme. The barrista at Starbucks in Spokane suggested we head west on US 2 to Grand Coulee Dam. There we experienced the good luck to be two of two on a tour of the hydroelectric plant within the dam which is the largest power...
See Oregon Trail Museum Video At the suggestion of a fellow camper at the Arco KOA, we headed this morning for Baker City, Oregon. There we visited the Oregon Trail Regional Museum before heading out to see The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. We discovered that a...
See Park Video Ranger Talk Video Arco is the home of the first nuclear reactor in the world but we were there on a weekend and couldn't do the tour. We headed for the Craters of the Moon National Monument. Talk about a forbidding landscape! Caused by the same...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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NYC was experiencing flooded roads and subways as we arrived at the Red Hook terminal in Brooklyn. It was quite an adventure to make our way to our Midtown Manhattan Hotel.
Seven day passage from Southampton to New York, the very first Festival of Food and Wine aboard Cunard, passing around Hurricane Nigel in the North Atlantic. So much to do, so little time!
Our last days in London were a mix of visiting more of the iconic sites in this ancient city, savoring the sounds of The Jive Aces, and just chilling in Hampstead before heading to Southampton.