Visiting Deception Pass State Park, walking across the high bridge over Deception Pass to Pass Island and then over Canoe Pass, with Mt Baker in the distance beyond Fidalgo Island.

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A snowy 3 day weekend provided great conditions for cross-country skiing and snow shoeing across fresh powder around the southeast portion of Mount Rainier National Park. Coming in from the Nisqually entrance, the park had lightly plowed winter road access to the Longmire National […]

This spaceship landed ready to protect kids from the elements while waiting for a school bus. We stopped at the nearby cookies-and-juice stand, run by 6 young entrepreneur-in-training girls taking advantage of Seattlites […]

Continuing our clockwise trip around the island, we headed southwest along the Hawaii Belt Road.  The entire southern end of the island was very sparsely populated.  Surprisingly so, in fact.  We would sometimes travel several miles before even seeing a single building off in the scrub brush, associated with a […]

B&B owner Joan was a grandmotherly Donald Trump. She kindly served a good filling breakfast of fruits and pancakes, while telling stories of her history, the neighbors, and the eight local vacation rental homes she owned with the B&B.  Having been there for 24 years, she accumulated properties over time […]

We walked the rugged nature trail that meandered around the Hedonisia property through dense rain forest and past a gaping deep lava tube of unknown depth.  A few years before one person rappelled down inside, but didn’t go beyond his rope length.

Around the grounds were other accommodation options.  Inside The […]