We made a visit to Portland, but due to time, weren't able to see as much as we would have liked. We make some quick visits to a couple of sites downtown and then spent the following day exploring the Columbia River Gorge. ...
Waterfalls
Waterfalls of Silver Falls State Park
On our way from Ashland to Portland, we took a couple of side trips, one to the Oregon Vortex and the other to Silver Falls State Park, where we spent an entire day. What a place! We had no idea that there were soooo many waterfalls in Oregon, and that was evident during the day that we spent ...
Olympic National Park : Podcast 18
Episode 18 of the All Around the West podcast is now out! Click below to listen. Sue and Scott visited a fabulous place, Olympic National Park. We had no idea what a unique and beautiful place this was going to be. We talk about our visit to the mountain, forest, coastal, and rain forest areas ...
Niagara Springs
I will just say that we were astonished at the amount of water that was coming right out of the side of the canyon wall. We've posted about other places in the Thousand Springs State Park (Malad Gorge, Thousand Springs Scenic Byway), and this is the last one that we visited. And it was amazing. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thousand Springs Scenic Byway – Idaho
A couple of years ago, Sue and I took a trip to Idaho, one of those trips where we really didn't figure out ahead of time where we were going to go. We just kind of took it as it came and decided on the fly what to go see. We ended up in Twin Falls at one point and decided to head over to Hagerman ...
Yellowstone National Park – Mammoth Hot Springs
In 2012, we visited Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. By the time we got there and ran to the visitors center, we only had about 20 minutes to explore before we had to head back to West Yellowstone for a previous appointment. It looked pretty awesome and we were definitely ...