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Or maybe it's quartz and feldspar.When we visited North Cascades National Park for the first time two years ago, it was this sight of Diablo and Ross Lakes that captured our hearts and drew us back again. The incredible blue and turquoise colors of these lakes comes...
Back in Fourth Grade or so we all learned about the windward side of the Mountains getting plenty of rain and the lee side experiencing a dry climate. Today we are getting a real life illustration of that geography lesson. As we left the Methow Valley headed west and...
After settling in at Newhalem Campground we hiked to the North Cascades Visitors Center where we learned we could attend a Ranger Talk. At 3:30PM we were the only two visitors sitting by the fireplace so Ranger Anthony Killion sat down with us and told the story of...
If memory serves us correctly, it was September 2008 at the Badlands KOA that we purchased our Value Kard Rewards membership. It's served us well. We appreciate the 10% discount we get with every stay. There are other perks too, one is the VKR Appreciation Weekend...
The town of Winthrop, Washington, had it’s beginnings in the late 19th Century with the establishment of Guy Waring’s General Store. For many years the town’s economy depended on mining, ranching, and especially on apple growing. Then in the winter of 1968-69...
Roadside America alerted us to this bit of whimsy. Apparently the owner of Hank's Harvest Foods in Twisp, Washington is an accomplished, well traveled big game hunter who displays many of his trophies inside this well stocked full service grocery store that serves...
One of the delights of our two night stay at Lake Chelan State Park Site #31 has been our proximity to the lakeshore. It has beckoned us out for morning and evening walks. The park offers some wonderful lakeside tent sites with gorgeous views and nice privacy...
To give us a bit of perspective on where we are, we picked out the Lake Chelan Historical Society museum on Woodin Avenue in downtown Chelan. We were greeted by Carla whose Great Grandfather brought his family to Chelan in the late Nineteenth Century. His plan was to...
Why do we find dams and hydroelectric power plants fascinating? Certainly it has nothing to do with one of us being a retired power generation engineer. The Rock Island Dam south of Wenatchee, Washington, his the distinction of being the first dam across the Columbia...
At some point more than ten million years ago here in what is now Washington State, the hills and valleys were lush with ginkgo, cypress, walnut, hickory, maple and many more kinds of trees when cataclysmic lava flows covered the landscape and turned into basalt....
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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Yes, we're back at our mountain house having returned in late September. Yes, we are way way behind on our blog posts. Yes, we promise to get caught up on posting all of the great experiences we have had these last several months but we didn't want to miss out on the...
3D Museum Tour When the hugely popular cowboy philosopher Will Rogers died in a plane crash in the Arctic in 1935, America mourned and his widow donated twenty acres to the state of Oklahoma as a permanent memorial to an incredibly talented Wild West roper,...
Traveling south on US 81, we made our way into Kansas and shortly thereafter noticed signs for the Orphan Train Depot and Museum in Concordia, Kansas. Unfortunately for us the museum buildings were closed but the signs and exhibits on the outside gave us some insight...