Ebey’s Landing
Late March is still too early to do any serious hiking at significant elevation but the Puget Sound coastal and island region has quite a lot of hidden gems that are very accessible. Ebey’s landing is one of those gems.…
Chris
How Does One Hike with a Llama? AKA Cliffside Hiking in Mount Baker’s Shadow
More than a year ago Devin posted about our failure to get to a trailhead because our car couldn’t traverse the road. I encountered another one of those failures that I chose not to write about three months ago. We…
Why is there a mountain with a mailbox at the top?
A year and a half ago, when we first moved here, I remember scrolling past a hike that had a mailbox fixated on the summit’s peak. At that time this hike was not making the list of weekend hiking plans…
Pratt River Trail
The Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest is a massive federal park that is accessed using the Northwest Forest Pass. If you are headed to the Pacific Northwest you really need to pick one up. We had planned to do the Middle…
A Full Feline Van
We made it to Kansas City close to midnight. When I checked into the hotel it was all done with about 6 feet of separation as prescribed by health officials. The hotel usually has free breakfast but had reduced service…
Social Distant Moving
Day 1 My new job is in the Seattle area so Devin and I started to make plans to move to Seattle. Then COVID-19 hit the United States. Prior to the epidemic we had been on a house hunting trip…
New Year’s Day Fireworks
On our last full day in Prague we switched hotels to put us closer to the airport. We’ve found that this makes it easier on our last day, so we are not stressed trying to make it to the airport. …
Bohemian Switzerland
No, Switzerland is not next to or has not annexed part of the Czech Republic. The Bohemian Switzerland National Park is named because some guy from Switzerland thought the area reminded him of home. This may sound silly but many…
Food Tour of Prague
This is the story of a bear. I know the title says food tour and most of the following content will be about the food tour, but its really about a bear. Americans in Prague We boarded the Metro and…
National Technical Museum
After our hotel breakfast and people watching session we headed across the river to the National Technical Museum. Right on schedule, tram number 26 picked us up and delivered us nearby. We had no idea what to expect from this…