Category: Travel
The Rainmakers – Cascades
We took the beauty and scale of the beach with us as we headed back into the mountains to go camping with my dad and some friends. I deeply love the Cascades; the North Cascades are easily one of my... Read More
Perfect for Flying High – Ocean Shores
After the site of the most famous eruption in Washington State history, we still had a couple of days before our house sit and needed to figure out how to spend it. We still weren’t sure if we... Read More
It Blew Soon After I was Born – Mt. St. Helens
The outdoor adventures of Bend in our minds, we went camping with our friends, stayed with them for a night in Portland, and then crossed back into Washington at long last. In the seven years that we ... Read More
Ascendent Dreams – Bend
Bend was thankfully far enough from the fires to let us escape the haze, but the fires brought us into the area a couple of days earlier than we planned, so we had some time to check out the nature th... Read More
The USA’s Deepest – Crater Lake National Park
Our minds blown like so many shards of obsidian, we crossed into Oregon, just one state away from home. The first stop on the list: Crater Lake, where my mother took me as a child. The fires tearing... Read More
The Alien Aftermath – Little Glass Mountain
We walked through the remnant tubes magma and onto something that sounded vaguely interesting, glass mountain. Apparently there were lots of obsidian lying around and people were pretty free to walk... Read More
Ancient Rivers – Lava Beds National Monument
Now that we better understood some of the active volcanoes in the area, we went to see what some of their predecessors had done by exploring a couple of the caves in Lava Beds. There are so many cav... Read More
Yellowstone in Miniature – Lassen Volcanic National Park
The USA’s second deepest lake behind us, we began our trek North, researching places as we went. One place that happened to be on our route and seemed interesting enough was Lassen. It sound... Read More
