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Alaska Bound: Oregon & Washington
We spent a weekend making the big move from Half Moon Bay to Eugene, OR. Eugene was a utilitarian stop, planned so that we could get some preventative maintenance on the trailer. We stayed at Armitage Regional Park for the week. Eugene, home of the University of Oregon, is a very treed town with lots of blooms in mid-April and the weather was just perfect. We tried Voodoo Doughnuts, walked around the Saturday market, and had lunch at Noisette. Our next weeklong destination was the Columbia River Gorge. On our way, we stopped at Silver Falls State Park so that we could hike the Trail of Ten Falls. In a…
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The North Cascades
We arrived at the North Cascades National Park the last week of June during a 3-day 95-degree “heat dome” AND a park ranger told us that all the hikes I had planned to do were covered in snow and that we should have winter hiking skills and carry an ice ax. Interesting. One paved road, the North Cascades Highway/20, runs east-west through this lightly visited National Park. Most of it is a wilderness that can only be accessed by backpacking or taking a ferry across Ross or Chelan Lakes. There isn’t a lot of infrastructure for visitors and most only see overlooks along Highway 20, which is technically part of…
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Day Trips To Seattle & Mount Rainier National Park
Between our trip to NC and our fridge debacle, we didn’t spend nearly enough time exploring western Washington and it will certainly be a summer destination another year. However, this time around, Rainier View RV Park was about an hour’s drive to both Seattle and Mount Rainier National Park and we were determined to spend a day at each of those. It rained the entire week that we were there in May, but couldn’t let the rain stop us on a weekend day. We started at Pike Place Public Market for breakfast…and stayed for lunch. Since we rarely eat out for convenience, but as more of an activity, we researched…
