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…
July 2020
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’ll admit it, I’m a waterfall chaser as they’re one of the few things I’m athletic enough to catch. Prior to this trip, I would have told you that the waterfalls in Maui on the road to Hana are…
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…
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…