Our destination for Day 7 was Port Angeles, a town of about 20,000, squeezed in between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic Mountains. And I do mean squeezed. The south edge of town sits right on the Straits and the north edge is right at the base of the mountains. It's a pretty cool ...
Whale Watching in the San Juan Islands : Northwest Trip Day 6
Once in a while you have an experience on a trip that will be with you forever. We've had several of those through years, like the airboat ride we took in the Everglades a couple of years after we moved to Florida. Our whale watching tour is now another one of those experiences. ...
Seattle : Northwest Trip Day 5
Day 5 took us from Marysville to Seattle. It had been my intention to stay in Seattle a few days, include a whale watching tour in the middle, drive around south to Tacoma, up the other side, and then on to Port Angeles, spending time in Olympic National Park, as well as a ferry ride over to ...
Northern Cascades : Northwest Trip Day 4
After spending the morning and early afternoon with family, Sue and I took off for the Seattle area. We had several choices for routes, but we decided to drive Highway 20 through the Northern Cascades. The roads were recently opened and the scenery definitely did not disappoint! I love driving ...
Okanogan and Omak : Northwest Trip Day 3
This was just a day to visit family that we have in Okanogan. It's always good to see my aunt and uncle and grandfather. Okanogan is a small town right next to Omak, and in northern Washington about 50 miles south of the Canadian border. Not much to report about the visit, nor the area, although ...
Pulaski Tunnel : Northwest Trip Day 2
In 1910, the town of Wallace, Idaho, along with many other western towns was embroiled in the fight against massive wildfires, the worst our country has every seen, then or since. A wildfire the size of Connecticut was burning in northeast Washington, the Idaho panhandle, and western Montana. In ...
Wallace, Idaho : Northwest Trip Day 2
Last year, Sue read a book called "The Big Burn" by Timothy Egan that had been recommended by a friend. She loves to visit places of history that she's read about, and "The Big Burn" tells all about the huge wildfires of 1910 where wildfires popped up all around the west, including the area around ...
A Driving Day Through Montana : Northwest Trip Day 1
The first leg of our trip is to take us to northern Washington to visit family for a couple of days. We didn't plan on doing or seeing much on the way up except one stop in Wallace, Idaho. So our first day was mainly a driving day. We had a couple of choices for getting to northern Washington, ...
Our 2014 Trip Around The Northwest
Sue and I have never spent much time in the Northwest. We've visited a couple of times to see family in northern Washington, but that was about it. And it was time. We've heard a lot about the beautiful places to go see and finally decided that we needed to spend some time exploring Washington ...