After an early Xmas with Kerri’s family in the South Bay last weekend, we did make it down to Borrego Springs in one and a half days of driving. It is nice to be back in Borrego Springs as it holds a special place in both our hearts as the...
On the way South, along the coastline, we stayed a single night in Newport, Oregon, at the Marina. It was an impromptu stay, partly to prevent a drive through the greater Portland area, partly to avoid the silliness of Portland’s laws and partly to keep Kerri on the coast for...
Cape Flattery is the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States. It is in Clallam County, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca joins the Pacific Ocean. Wikipedia Two years ago, when I was in this area, I chose not to come to Cape Flattery...
Since meeting and getting to know Kerri – way back in Jan of this year – she has been telling me about how much she loves Port Townsend, Washington. So much so that we even planned our Alaska trip to return into the lower-48 via Washington just to spend a...
Two years ago I came through the Pacific North West at this very time in the year. Two years ago our politician’s bickering and muscle flexing caused a Government shutdown (not to their own salaries of course) which closed down many parks, facilities, and services including the Dungeness National Wildlife...
With the realization that we would be arriving in Washington for Labor Day we chose to stay planted as close to the Canadian Border as possible so we could hop into Vancouver for a day on the holiday weekend. It was a good plan; dodge the weekender crowds at campgrounds...
No way were we going to take the trailer down 60 miles of rutted and washboard dirt road, so instead we found a nice free campground right outside of Chitina to call home base. From here we took the truck into the National Park to visit McCarthy and Kennecott. It...
Valdez Alaska. Known for the oil spill even though the oil itself never touched a beach in the Valdez area. This place is all about oil, oil, oil. That big oil pipeline ends here, where it is fed to those enormous oil ships which haul it down to the West...
The original plan was to stay a whole week in Seward, but after talking with others that have spent time there and work over the Internet, we decided to stay undecided. See, when a cruise ship comes into port – and they do daily in Seward – the thousands of...
Upon arriving in Homer we drove straight to our designated campground at Mariner Park. It is not much more than a gravel lot at the beginning of the Spit but not only was the location great for an easy jump into town or the Spit itself, the view stretched across...
