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West Coast Wander, Day 1: Seattle to Ocean Shores, Washington
We had a two-week vacation, and decided that it would be fun to drive down the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California and then drop off our rental car and take a train back home. I’m calling this journey the West Coast Wander, and plan to blog about it every other day so as not…
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Day 8, in Which I Walked through the Valley of Death
It is a hauntingly beautiful place.
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Rounding Tahoma
We were casting about for ways to beat the heat.
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Crater Lake, Oregon
It’s always exciting when you get to cross something off your bucket list.
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Exploring Washington State–Mount Rainier National Park
As we came around the curve, a bald eagle landed in the road right in front of us; an opossum clutched in its talons. Upon seeing us, the grand bird flew away, leaving its prey behind. Its wingspan was wider than the lane in which we were driving. It all seemed to happen in slow…
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Scary Nature
Anyone who watches PBS even sporadically knows that the early Europeans who settled the Americas were downright terrified of the natural world. At first their settlements clung to shorelines and they kept the dense forests, full of unknown creatures and other, incomprehensible humans, to their backs, behind fortifications whenever possible. Swamps, deserts, and high mountain…