One of the unexpected treats of our Northwest Trip was all the bald eagles saw, perhaps 20 in all. This is one of our favorites that we saw as we took our whale watching tour in the San Juan Islands. Sue took this awesome shot of this magnificent bird perched on a small grass covered ...
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Mount St. Helens : Northwest Trip Day 12
After staying the night in Kelso, Washington, we began our journey to our destination for the day, Mount St. Helens. My undergraduate degree was in geology, and I have always wanted to see Mount St. Helens. The stories that I'd heard an the pictures I'd seen of the eruption in 1980 were incredible ...
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 ...
Forks and Flattery : Podcast 19
Episode 19 of the All Around the West podcast is now ready. Click below to listen. We had a great time visiting the very northwest tip of the continental United States, Cape Flattery as well as the town that is the setting for the Twilight books, Forks, Washington. If you are a Twilight ...
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 ...
Whale Watching in the San Juan Islands : Podcast 16
You can now listen to Episode 16 of the All Around the West Podcast by clicking on the link below. Sue and I talk about our fabulous trip to look for whale in the San Juan Islands. We took a tour with Island Adventures out of Anacortes, Washington. We talk about how we almost didn't take this ...