Episode 14 of the All Around the West Podcast is now ready. Click the link below to listen. In this podcast, Sue and I talk about this amazing valley in Montana that is called the Land of the 10000 Haystacks (I've also see it called Valley of 1000 Haystacks). There are these amazing, huge ...
Olympic National Park Beach and Rain Forest : Northwest Trip Day 10
After staying the night in Forks, we headed out to First Beach and La Push, both located on the Quileute Reservation. Both of these have scenes that also take place in the Twilight series and Sue wanted to visit them. It turns out that First Beach was another introduction to the gorgeous ...
Crystal Park on the Pioneer Mountain Scenic Byway : Podcast 13
Episode 13 of the All Around The West Podcast is now ready! In this episode, Sue and I talk about an unplanned visit we made to Crystal Park in southwest Montana along the Pioneer Mountain Scenic Byway. ...
Massacre Rocks State Park
As we traveled through Idaho, we took some time to visit some of the Idaho State Parks. Massacre Rocks State Park and the accompanying Register Rock is right along I-86, ten miles west of American Falls. While it was plenty hot the day that we visited (late July 2013), in cooler times it would ...
Glacier National Park : Podcast 12
Episode 12 of the All Around The West Podcast is now live! In this episode, Sue and I talk about a visit that we made to one of my favorite places: Glacier National Park. In the last episode of our podcast, we talked about the beautiful scenery of Waterton Lakes National Park. Glacier National ...
Waterton Lakes National Park
Last summer, we had the opportunity to visit a beautiful park, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. Oh. my. goodness. It was gorgeous. We were staying in Cardston, but made several day trips over to the Waterton area. The Waterton lakes are gorgeous, the Waterton Town is nice, and ...
Cape Flattery and Forks : Northwest Trip Day 9
After a long day with our trip to Butchart Gardens, it was time to leave Port Angeles. I think Port Angeles would be interesting to go back to and visit again and be able to explore the areas around more than we were able. Next on our agenda was exploring the other two environments of Olympic ...
Waterton Lakes National Park : Podcast 11
Episode 11 of the All Around The West Podcast is now ready! In this episode, Sue and I talk about a great visit that we had in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. While this goes outside our normal focus of the western United States, it is still in the west and occasionally ...
Butchart Gardens : Northwest Trip Day 8
For day 8 on our northwest trip, we planned a trip across the Juan de Fuca Strait to Victoria, British Columbia and then on up to the Butchart Gardens. These gardens are world famous and Sue has wanted to see them for a long time, so this was a golden opportunity to us to do just that. I spent ...