Travel
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A sad day at the Louvre
I’ll never forget our trip as a family to Paris and the day we visited the Louvre back in July of 2017. The experience was overwhelming! So much art and wondrous architecture. This week though, I remembered specifically a walk through the Apollon Gallery and the pictures I took: Beauty can be fleeting. Bad players…
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Monument Valley
Few places have so inspired me and filled me with awe that I was left speechless. Monument Valley is now one of them. My daughter and I visited the last week of September, and took an awesome tour with a local guide. Here is a link to the campground we used which also has the…
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Grand Lake, Olympic National Park
I took a few days off work in order to go hiking with my son up in the Olympic Mountains. We went to a new spot called Grand Lake, which neither of us had visited. It is within the national park and requires a wilderness overnight permit which can be purchased at recreation.gov. The difficult…
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Naches Peak Trail Loop, again!
It’s July and my family spent a weekend up near Chinook Pass, and after everyone left and I finished my cleanup chores, I drove up to the pass for another dose of my favorite hike: Naches Peak Loop! It’s my go-to hike for July because of a number of factors. First the snow pack is…
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Iceland is Awesome
In July of 2023, I was plotting my travel back to Seattle from Spain after leaving my son there for a semester abroad. We had developed an epic plan involving flights to London, the Chunnel, Paris, Bordeaux, and then an afternoon stop in Hendaye, and a train to Donastia, where he would be staying and…
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It’s raining a bit in the Northwest…
Olympic National Park has an amazing reputation, but mostly in the summer. This time of year, the park is really one big hazard zone, especially during and after a storm. The northwest was hit by what is called a bomb cyclone last week, and the area near the Quinault entrance had 3+ inches of water…
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Most underrated national park…
There are a lot of national parks, and the top 5 get the lion’s share of attention. Everyone knows about Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. These are iconic parks, that are matchless in their unique natural settings and huge yearly attendance. The Great Smoky Mountains have more visitors by far than any other national…
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Channel Islands National Park
Fall vacation time is when my bucket list is just overflowing. Too many good ideas, and not enough time to fit them all in. We decided a ways back to take a trip to Disneyland with my brother-in-law and his 5 and 8 year old girls, both in the prime theme park demographic. Of course,…
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Surfing is hard…
Clearly, there are a lot of activities that are difficult to start in your 50s and one of them is surfing. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with balancing on everything from a skateboard to skis and now I can add a surfboard to that list. Ever since I was a child, I’ve had…
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Chinook Pass is about to bloom
I just returned from a trip up into the Cascades, east of Mt Rainier, and the meadows at Lake Tipsoo are about to erupt in wildflowers! I would guess that the best time to visit will be from 7-20 days from today for the full display of color and natural wonder. I wanderered a bit…
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