Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
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Tag: Travel
Canadian Rockies Adventure 2016 – through Glacier to Banff and Jasper
Rocky Mountains. Craggy peaks. Lakes and rivers and waterfalls. Scenic Highways. Glaciers. Bears! This was the 4th time we made the journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Canadian Rockies and this time we went east through Glacier National Park and north to Banff… Continue Reading “Canadian Rockies Adventure 2016 – through Glacier to Banff and Jasper”
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Canadian Rockies here we come! Again!
Apparently every 10 years or so we hear the call to go north. So for the past few weeks I’ve been putting together our next road trip to the Canadian Rockies. This got me going through my old scrap books (I used to do… Continue Reading “Canadian Rockies here we come! Again!”
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Mt Rainier on a summer day…
We don’t usually make the drive to Mt. Rainier on a sunny Saturday in the middle of summer. But this past weekend that is exactly what we decided to do, heading from Renton through Enumclaw to the Sunrise side of the mountain. We didn’t… Continue Reading “Mt Rainier on a summer day…”
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Olympic National Park and Sequim Lavender Festival
Olympic National Park. Almost a million acres of preserved wilderness, old-growth temperate rain forests, glacier capped mountains and glacier carved lakes, wild rivers, the longest undeveloped coast in the contiguous United States. Nearby Sequim, in the rain shadow of the Olympics. Self proclaimed “Lavender… Continue Reading “Olympic National Park and Sequim Lavender Festival”
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All dressed in green for the 4th of July
It wasn’t exactly red, white and blue… more like, green, green and more green.. It was a drizzly day on the 4th of July this side of the mountains so we opted to go east where the sun is always shining.. On the… Continue Reading “All dressed in green for the 4th of July”
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Coast Redwoods
Off we go on another road trip down the beautiful West Coast (and best coast) of the USA, headed toward the majestic Coast Redwoods! We leave Seattle and after three days cross the border into California on Highway 101 enjoying the same awesome… Continue Reading “Coast Redwoods”
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Snoqualmie Dreaming
I love living in the Pacific Northwest where we are surrounded by an incredible landscape of mountains, rivers, forests and seas. Within a couple of hours you can be at Mt Rainier or Olympic National Park or Columbia River Gorge. Or you can opt… Continue Reading “Snoqualmie Dreaming”
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Great American Road Trip – the long way home
So this is it. Come along for the final installment of a four part series on our Great American Road Trip. After 21 days on the road we were just past the half way point of our epic journey across the USA which started… Continue Reading “Great American Road Trip – the long way home”
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Great American Road Trip – Kentucky and the Blue Ridge Parkway
After nearly 2 weeks on the road we had reached a low point on our cross country journey. 310 feet underground to be exact. We were in Kentucky on the historic tour of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world, with… Continue Reading “Great American Road Trip – Kentucky and the Blue Ridge Parkway”
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The Great American Road Trip – and Kansas
I’m resting on the shore, absorbing the heavy rays of August sun, watching a tall, elegant bird, peering into the water’s edge. There’s a thick, summer stillness and almost imperceptible sound rising from the ripples caused by fish and the insects skirting over the… Continue Reading “The Great American Road Trip – and Kansas”
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