North Cascades Travelog #16
Coulee Dam, WA - Tue, 5 Sep 2023, 10am.

Today we're headed back to GEG airport in Spokane to fly home. Our 4 day trip to eastern Washington and the North Cascades is almost over. Almost over is not the same as over-over, though. There's still stuff left to do and time to do it! We stopped in Coulee Dam, Washington, to ( Read more... )

North Cascades Travelog #4
Coulee City, WA - Sat, 2 Sep 2023, 4pm.

We've spent a lot of today blazing through the hinterlands of Eastern Washington. After our foiled revenge trip to Palouse Falls we started zig-zagging north and west across Washington toward tonight's destination of Winthrop. Why zig-zagging? Well, no roads go directly between ( Read more... )

North Cascades Travelog #3
Washtucna, WA - Sat, 2 Sep 2023, 1pm.

We got off to a somewhat lazy start this morning from our hotel room at the Spokane airport. We weren't rolling until almost 10, which meant we didn't get to our first real stop of the trip, Palouse Falls, until nearly noon.


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North Cascades Travelog #5
Winthrop, WA - Sat, 2 Sep 2023, 10pm.It's getting late in the day, and I can already see that I'm going to fall behind on preparing photos to share in these blogs. Instead of growing a backlog waiting on time to do photos and post things in chronological order, I'm going to skip ahead and post a daily wrap-up ( Read more... )

North Cascades Travelog #2
GEG Airport - Sat, 2 Sep 2023, 8am.

Some people begin trips by driving to the airport at night, staying over at a hotel, and flying out first thing in the morning. We turned that upside down by driving to the airport yesterday, flying to Spokane, and then staying over at a hotel. Yes, come Saturday morning we're still at ( Read more... )

North Cascades Travelog #1
38,000' feet over California - Fri, 1 Sep 2023, 8:30pm.Tonight Hawk and I are flying to Spokane, Washington. We've taken Tuesday off from work for a 4 day Labor Day weekend holiday. We'll spend Saturday visiting Palouse Falls then the rest of the trip at North Cascades National Park further west in Washington ( Read more... )

As we returned from our four-day weekend trip Olympic National Park a few weeks ago I thought about how we schedule vacation and travel... versus how, ideally, we'd schedule vacation and travel.

This year we've traveled to the state of Washington three times. Twice were trips to Spokane, from which we branched out in various directions north, east ( Read more... )

Northwest Return Travelog #17
Back home - Mon, 2 Aug 2021. 9pm.

This evening we returned home from our long weekend trip to Spokane and the Inland Northwest. For much of the flight home we could see nothing of the ground below us. Everything was covered with smoke from wildfires. As we entered the San Francisco area, though...


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Northwest Return Travelog #16
Spokane, WA - Mon, 2 Aug 2021. 2pm.

I've explained in my past couple blogs how I consider it important when traveling to have a few runner-up plans, or at least a sense of reasonable alternatives, in case Plan A goes south. With wildfires, heavy smoke, and challenging weather some of our plans this weekend have gone... ( Read more... )

Northwest Return Travelog #15
Holiday Inn in Clarkston, WA - Sun, 1 Aug 2021. 10pm.

"I need a vacation to recover from my vacation!" How many times have you heard someone say that? How many times have you said it yourself? I've said it so many times I've lost count. But I don't just say it, I do something about it.

One thing I do is plan to get home ( Read more... )