As Sue and I headed down the Oregon coast on our Northwest Trip, we continued our Lewis and Clark discoveries. We visited Seaside, where Lewis and Clark had some of the men make salt from the seawater. We were heading on down to Cannon Beach where a beached whale was also part of their visit. We ...
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Lewis and Clark Along The Washington Coast : Northwest Trip Day 11
After the Hoh Rain Forest, we pushed on to Aberdeen, Washington, where we stayed the night. We had a lot on tap for Day 11, chasing Lewis and Clark along the Washington coast. The first stop of the day was to North Head Lighthouse in the southwest corner of Washington state near the mouth of ...
Northwest Lighthouses : Podcast 21
Episode 21 of the All Around the West podcast is now ready for your listening pleasure!. Click below to listen. Sue has always wanted to visit lighthouses and our Northwest trip was a prime opportunity to do that. All told, we saw 12 different lighthouses, visited many of those and in this ...
North Head Lighthouse
I've got quite a few posts coming to show you about our visits to a bunch of lighthouses in the Northwest. Some we were able to tour and some we were just able to see from the outside. But they all had different characteristics and were great fun to visit. We are going take you on our tour of all ...
Lewis and Clark in the Northwest : Podcast 20
Episode 20 of the All Around the West podcast is now ready. Click below to listen. After visiting a number of sites in Montana that were visited by Lewis and Clark (see Podcast 10), Sue and I decided to do the same while we were in Washington and Oregon. The Pacific Ocean was Lewis and ...
Butchart Gardens : Podcast 17
Episode 17 of the All Around the West Podcast is now ready. Click the link below to listen. In this podcast, Sue and I talk about our fun trip to the world famous Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island north of Victoria, British Columbia. We talk about what we saw in our visit to the ...
Massacre Rocks State Park and Register Rock
Among the State Parks we visited in Idaho was Massacre Rocks State Park. This State Park is located right along I-86 and has a number of interesting features. The park sits right next to the Snake River, has miles of hiking trails, a campground, a world class disc golf course, fishing, a swimming ...
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 ...
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 ...