Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
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Cruise to Alaska – Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier
I’m back with the next installment from our cruise to Alaska. The map below shows our itinerary from Seattle, with our first port Ketchikan followed the next day by scenic cruising in Endicott Arm Fjord and a stop in Juneau (which I’ll save for… Continue Reading “Cruise to Alaska – Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier”
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Cruise to Alaska, First Stop Ketchikan -Spawning Salmon and Feeding Whales!
We left Seattle on day 1 and spent the next day and a half enjoying the amenities on the ship, before arriving at our first port, Ketchikan. I didn’t schedule any shore excursions as we knew from our previous trip (this is our second… Continue Reading “Cruise to Alaska, First Stop Ketchikan -Spawning Salmon and Feeding Whales!”
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Back Home from Alaska – A Foretaste
We returned from our cruise to Alaska yesterday and when I woke this morning, I expected to look out the window and see the ocean. It will take time to realize I’m back on land. I didn’t buy the internet package as I wanted… Continue Reading “Back Home from Alaska – A Foretaste”
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Reflections on a Lake over Chinook Pass
It made a nice day trip over the mountains with a good excuse – to look at a camper for sale in Yakima. (We can’t seem to give up the thought of camping.) We headed south to Mt Rainier via Highway 410 and up… Continue Reading “Reflections on a Lake over Chinook Pass”
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A Forgotten View of Mt. Rainier – from Crystal Mountain
I was reminded by Facebook Memories that once upon a time we took the Gondola at Crystal Mountain. I’d heard of Crystal Mountain before but since I don’t ski, I’d never been there. But one day on a trip to Mt. Rainier, we saw… Continue Reading “A Forgotten View of Mt. Rainier – from Crystal Mountain”
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A Trip to the Beach without Benji
We just returned from a few days at the ocean, perfectly timing our visit to escape the heat wave in Seattle. Honestly, we got lucky, it was twenty degrees cooler at Long Beach. We had a great time. Bicycling. Hiking. Enjoying the sights. And… Continue Reading “A Trip to the Beach without Benji”
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Sequim Lavender Weekend and Festival 2023
They call themselves the Lavender Capital of North America and who can dispute it? – there are 18 lavender farms in the Dungeness Sequim Valley. “The lavender fields in Sequim have been blooming since the mid-1990s. The first fields were planted after a sub-committee… Continue Reading “Sequim Lavender Weekend and Festival 2023”
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Life is Better with Clouds
I love clouds. I suppose it’s a good thing as here in Seattle we get our fair share of them, though not lately. We’ve had a surprisingly lengthy dry spell this summer, so I’ve dug into my archives to find some special clouds to… Continue Reading “Life is Better with Clouds”
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Green and Blue Over Seattle
It’s hard to say which is most striking – the green or the blue. All I can say is I haven’t found a prettier place from the sky than Seattle. I was born and raised here so I may be biased. Still, I urge… Continue Reading “Green and Blue Over Seattle”
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Chicago’s Magnificent Parks and Museums
Maybe I stole ‘magnificent’ in my title from the ‘Magnificent Mile,’ the famous boulevard that runs through the heart of downtown, where we stayed on Michigan Avenue. Sill, I think the adjective fits to describe the parks and museums we visited in Chicago. Millenium… Continue Reading “Chicago’s Magnificent Parks and Museums”
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