How about a list…. 1. We started (again) to go north and hike to Barclay Lake and also to make a stop at Wallace Falls State Park. One thing led to another, it was getting late, the kiddo wasn’t fond of the idea of riding in the car, etc. We bailed. 2. Went to Nolte […]
Continue reading →Oops…. I kinda disappeared on ya. Sorry about that. Got distracted. OK, let’s do a little review of our Independence Day (also known as the day the Pacific Northwest proved it does have the ability to be hotter than Hades, it just chooses not to brag about it.) We had made a plan that we […]
Continue reading →A few weeks ago I received an email from an American living in South Korea (Hi, Chris!). He had seen a post I did about going to the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix. He said that his students are big into Jimi Hendrix stuff and would think he was a hero if he could get a […]
Continue reading →We spent Saturday searching for different waterfalls along Snoqualmie pass and the south fork of the Snoqualmie River. The weather was so nice, and it was so sunny (!) that we couldn’t waste such a great opportunity to do some site seeing. I put together a little montage of our discoveries. Here are some waterfalls […]
Continue reading →What’s been going on around here? 1. Still showing the house. Real Estate adventures… what fun. 2. Learned how (sorta) to use Skype. Used Skype do a video call with my dad so he could see Anna Grace on Father’s Day. That was pretty cool. 3. We went on a mini-road trip yesterday to see […]
Continue reading →AG and I returned home last night and we had my mother in tow. Mom did quite well with the flying, changing planes, etc. but she had made comments prior to our trip stating that she didn’t think she needed "babysitting" when it came to flying to Washington. Five minutes after arriving in the Atlanta […]
Continue reading →Here’s what was supposed to happen today….. Leave here in morning and drive to Skookum Flats trail. Hike 4 miles on easy trail, cross suspension bridge and find car that we left at that end of trail.Drive back and pick up other car that we left at trailhead.Go home.Have plenty of time left to get […]
Continue reading →Well, that was kinda spur of the moment. Dana hadn’t seen Ft. Stevens like we had and I wanted to drive a little bit of the Oregon coast. But we chose the wrong portion of the 101 to drive on. Couldn’t see the coast. We drove from Portland over to Seaside and then headed up […]
Continue reading →As we travelled along the Oregon side of the river we saw some beautiful waterfalls. Horsetail Falls: The waterfall ends in this shallow little pool. All sorts of folks were gathered around having a picnic, kids were playing, etc. Guess what AG decided to do? Yep. The kid decided to throw rocks. (Look at that […]
Continue reading →Saturday we finished up with the Washington side of the gorge. As you can see we’ve entered the desert type atmostphere. More Gorge Views: This photo was taken in the general direction of Mt. Hood but the mountain wasn’t out much while we were visiting. Mt. Hood normally looks down on the Columbia River. Stonehenge […]
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