We opted to stay put most of the day. Set up chairs in the woods behind the T@B and just relaxed. Bits of sun filtered in once in a while but mostly the day was gray. We did some walking around the campground but nothing strenuous. Late in the afternoon we climbed...
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South to Alder Lake
As it turns out our angst about the traffic we would encounter in our drive past the Seattle area was for naught. Of course the fact that we traveled south on the I-405 bypass on a Sunday morning was important in avoiding traffic craziness. Fascinated with views of...
Happy 100th Birthday National Park Service
As we walked into the North Cascade National Park Newhalem Visitors Center we were greeted with "Happy Birthday!" from the ranger at the information counter. Yes! One hundred years ago today Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act establishing the National...
Yakima Valley
From Burbank we headed northwest on I-82 through the Yakima Valley. Looking through the windshield at amazing landscapes and snow capped mountains in the distance. We detoured off the highway to see the 1922 gas station built to draw attention to the Teapot Dome...
Olympic National Park Day One
Awakening this morning to gray skies, we figured this must be the first day of winter. So grateful we had the opportunity to visit Rainier in the sunshine! As we were preparing to depart three deer came through a neighboring site on their breakfast circuit. From Alder...
Deception Pass
It's great to have a plan but sometimes it's better to change plans. Our plan had been to stay at Riverside just one night but this morning we looked at the maps, calculated some travel times and decided to stay here one more night so that we could explore a bit of...
Cascades Loop
It was a glorious drive along Washington State Highway 20, the North Cascades Scenic Highway. We left our campsite at Orondo to head north on US-97 then at Paternos we caught WA-153. It was at Twisp that we began traveling on WA-20. We fueled up and gave a T@B tour in...
Hiking Rainier on gloriously beautiful day
See Mount Rainer Experiences Video See Park Video The day's possibilities was our first thoughts as we awakened today. We explored Alder Lake Park a bit then made arrangements to extend our stay by one day and visit Mount Rainier on this gloriously beautiful day. Back...
Headed to Riverside
For those of us that travel by the seats of our pants, weekends in high season present a challenge. We try to identify campgrounds that might be less popular and to arrive early in the afternoon. Today we headed west from Newhalem, stopped at the Cascadian Farm...
US-97
We started in Ellensburg after a cuppa, a bit of fruit, and a little cheese. And headed north on US-97 past some glorious scenery. And signs of the local fruit industry. Into the Bavarian themed community of Leavenworth and sampled the fare at Home Fires Bakery inside...
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Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
Caligula at Strawberry Hill
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
Imperial War Museum
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.