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 ...
2014 Northwest Trip
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 ...