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 ...
Archives for June 2014
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 ...
Olympic National Park Mountains : Northwest Trip Day 7
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 ...