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Today's route is taking us south along Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway and along the shore of Soap Lake. This place intrigues us because it is a meromictic lake, one of the few lakes in the world where the layers of water do not intermix. We encountered the phenomenon...
After this morning's hike along the Bunch Grasses Trail out of Spring Canyon Campground near Grand Coulee, Washington, we're preparing to decamp from Site #18. It's been a great two night stay. We enjoyed some visits with neighbors as well as just some delicious...
See Park Video See History Video This afternoon we visited the Grand Coulee Dam Visitors Center. When we visited here ten years ago our focus was on the guided tour of the Third Power Plant. This time we watched the video documenting the process of construction of...
Today we returned to Dry Falls. In 2008 we stopped here just because we spotted the Brown Sign and it was then that we began to learn about the Missoula Floods, the series of catastrophic floods that occurred during the Last Ice Age and so dramatically sculpted the...
Our plans to just relax and watch the sun set this evening were revised when we learned that there would be a laser light show at Grand Coulee Dam this evening. We decided to take advantage of the opportunity and headed to the dam as dusk began to settle. We went down...
Perched above Lake Roosevelt, we're ensconced in Spring Canyon Campground on Site #18. It's time to relax in this beautiful place. Yesterday after the T@B Breakfast we took time for mundane things like an oil change, getting one of our security keys replaced. Ask us...
One of the features of Peaceful Pines is the proximity to some very busy BNSF railroad tracks. Trains are coming and going at all hours. This morning we walked out to a path along the tracks and watched long long freight trains passing us in both directions trying to...
Apparently we have the distinction of being the folks who have traveled furthest to join the monthly Spokane T@B Breakfast on the second Saturday of each month. For us it was an amazing opportunity to meet several Washingtonian T@B owners/enthusiasts with whom we’d...
In July Karen invested in a new rain jacket at Duluth Trading Company. Then in August when visiting with Eddie Doherty, the last Donegal Tweed handweaver in Ardara, County Donegal, she took the jacket off to try on a pocket cape and inadvertently left the jacket...
With a weekend coming up we thought it would be prudent to have a reservation so we consulted Allstays for an appealing place within a reasonable distance of Spokane. Peaceful Pines sounded nice so we called. They were full on Saturday. No, wait! Just eighteen feet?...
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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Dear Subscribers, thanks for bearing with us. When we returned home last September we focused our energies on things other than posting travel blogs. Now as we prepare to head out with our T@B in the near future, we're excited about focusing on blog posts from the...
In search of more information about the history of this area we visited the headquarter of the Missouri National Recreational River in Yankton, South Dakota and talked with a ranger. Following that conversation we headed half an hour east to Spirit Mound Historic...
Cottonwood Campground, a COE campground at the foot of Gavins Point Dam between Lewis & Clark Lake and Yankton Lake just a few miles from the town of Yankton in southeastern South Dakota is our home for three nights. It's just across the Missouri River from...