The last stops on our 2.5-year road trip are a mix of overnight layovers and 2-night stopovers, as we strategically make our way during the Covid Crisis from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to Eastern Washington, just north of Spokane. It has been a bizarre and crazy drive — with campgrounds
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Stop 37: We Beat Amazon in Finding our New Headquarters!
While Amazon is still working to narrow the list of cities for its new headquarters, we are happy to report we have accomplished that task! Our new EmpoweringSites.com headquarters — including home to this blog — will be located just outside of Spokane, Washington. We will be adding infrastructure to
Stop 26: Columbia Gorge-ous!
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
Stop 20: PNW forests, lakes, and National Park #10
Ah, the Pacific Northwest in all its glory… that was the theme of this, our 20th stop, on this 2-year+ journey across the continental United States. It also was the continuation of our journey along the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway… including a stop at National Park #10 on our list: