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July 2020

Travel

OLYMPIC PENINSULA – PART 1

I love those holiday gift sites that try to point you to the perfect gift by personality type. The Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park could create a website like that as they seem to have a little something…

Travel

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER

If you’re around my age, you watched Mr. Rogers…A LOT…but I must say that Mr. Rogers did not adequately prepare me for the people in my neighborhood and by that, I mean, extended family.  Just kidding.  To keep pace…

Scenic Cycling Travel

STEILACOOM AND PUGET SOUND

For the best sunsets on the west coast, consider a trip to Puget Sound in mid-July. It’s rare to have a gorgeous Bay Area sunset and I find sunsets in So Cal are beautiful because it’s warm enough to…

Boondock With Bailey Travel

GETTING TO PARADISE IS EASY

Or is it? Today was a roller coaster. Even if you’ve never spent any time in an RV you probably know that there are 3 tanks – one with fresh water, one with grey water (think dish washing and…

Travel

MOUNT SAINT HELENS

In the summer of 1980, my Aunt Sherry brought me a vial of ash that I had zero appreciation for.  At the time, I could think of no reason that I’d need light colored dirt.  For Doug, this was…

Travel

THE OREGON VORTEX

For the first two weeks of July we joked that we were caught in a Sisters-Portland Oregon vortex due to some unexpected logistics related to RV upgrades, gravel bike procurement and hair care.  All told we ended up staying twice…

Boondock With Bailey Travel

SISTERS

Sisters, OR – the sister city of Bend, OR – so nice, we visited twice!   Leaving Waldo Lake, we spent the morning at Hosmer lake in the Deschutes National Forest.  If you’re headed to the lake there’s a a…