Adios, America!
I left the States on the 21st of August and am getting my feet under me here in bonny Scotland. For the next four years – pending any other life changes – I will be living in Dundee and going to school. Continue reading
Here’s something interesting for you: many people think the Pacific Northwest is only the territory from western Oregon up through western Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s not. The Pacific Northwest, AKA: PNW, covers Washington, Oregon, B.C., Idaho, and parts of Montana and California and Alaska.
Western Washington – pretty green with lots of trees
Eastern Washington – kind of like Kansas
Spent the long “traitorous colonials” (aka: Independence Day) weekend with my best friend, her hubs, and their two small humans camping out in North Cascades National Park. There were camp fires, roasted marshmallow stuffed Reese’s (because this Celiac improvises with candy for Graham Crackers, haha!), bugs with little people, hiking and boat rides. ‘Merica!
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Diablo Lake
Blue Lake
Blue Lake
The only time I willingly allow bugs in my tent is when a little Heathen happens to be sharing it with me. All little kids should play with bugs🙂
These falls…oh, so much more I could have scrambled, but I left Angsty Teenager and the Greekanese at the trailhead by a stream and decided it would be rude to bail on them for more than an hour🙂
Green Lake – I will see you soon.
As I get older, I find I have a ridiculous appreciation for bridges. Maybe it’s not overly ridiculous to be glad that people decided to make access to other areas easier, but it still can seem a little strange. Having previously taken for granted the skills each generation has used to build a bridge, be it steel or wood, I’d just like to send a little shout out to those magnificent bridge builders of past and present – THANK YOU!
Wooden Bridge connecting the Thunder Creek Trail System – North Cascades National Park
The single-lane steel and concrete High Steel Bridge located in Olympic National Forest. The bridge was built in 1929 and is 420-feet / 120-meters high
View of the Skokomish River and part of the steel supports of High Steel Bridge. Note the size of the evergreen trees and likely size of the river when you’re 420-feet / 120-meters up!
Vantage, Washington
I had this great plan for getting up super early, pre-dawn-style, hopping a ferry over to the Olympic Peninsula and adventuring through a trail system along a lake. That didn’t so much happen.
So, this was a very unintentional nearly 3-month hiatus, but alas, the human body does what it wants… Continue reading
I couldn’t pick a favorite photo from my adventure to Eastern Washington and up through Leavenworth, Washington this past week, so I thought I’d ask you (whoever you are): which of these is your favorite?
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