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    Month: May 2018

    North Cascades Diablo Lake

    Stop 30: North Cascades National Park… and More!

    May 30, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Oh, the fun we had on this stop of the trip, including two forays into the mountains of North Cascades National Park, #13 on our list of national parks explored on this adventure — and one of the least visited of all the national parks. This isolated park in northern

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    Deception Pass

    Stop 29: Bellingham, Baker, and Deception Pass

    May 23, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We took a few days in Bellingham to visit Ran’s son and daughter-in-law and new baby, as well as do our usual romping around the surrounding natural attractions, including Deception Pass and Mount Baker. We started the adventure with a drive up to Mount Baker along Highway 542 (Mt. Baker

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    Olympic National Park

    Stop 28: Olympic Peninsula

    May 21, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Continuing westward, we traveled to the Olympic Peninsula to seek out and explore the amazing variety of Olympic National Park, #12 on our list of national parks we have visited on this adventure. Of all the national parks, this one may offer visitors the most variety, including high, glacier-capped mountains, old

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    Jen at Mt St Helens

    Stop 27: Mount Rainier and Mount Saint Helens

    May 18, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    This stop was all about seeing two active and dramatic volcanic mountains in southern Washington. We traveled from Ellensburg (and the not so pleasant Yakima River RV Park) to Randle (sadly misspelled), traveling over the quite beautiful White Pass Scenic Byway (Highway 12), which offered us an early peak at

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    Columbia River Gorge

    Stop 26: Columbia Gorge-ous!

    May 12, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We hit the Columbia River Gorge at the perfect time. The weather was wonderful, the trees and plants all green, and wildflowers blooming everywhere you looked! Just wow. (Side note: It is also very windy in the Gorge!) We saw arrowleaf balsamroots, lupines, lilacs, bachelor buttons, larkspur, camas, penstemons, wooly

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    Beauty and Grace in National Forest

    Stop 25: Beautiful Bend, Delightful Deschutes

    May 2, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We had a sort of homecoming when we came back east to camp in Bend; a few weeks back we had camped about an hour south of Bend in Crescent. And while Bend traffic was not so wonderful, the sites and trails we biked and hiked most certainly were. This

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