A little variation to the plan today… We usually plan our holidays down to ( almost) the finest detail, however we do try to allow for a bit of flexibility. Our main aim over the next couple of days was to try to drive the beartooth Highway into ( or…
This will be a long one as I’m putting four days into one post! Tuesday 1/9/2015 Today we saw 4 seasons in one day! As we left Spokane the sun was shining but the air was cool. It’s not a huge city so it wasn’t long before we were out…
Bright sunshine and a nice warm day today, yay! It didn’t take long to leave the downtown of Walla Walla and find ourselves in the countryside. Stephen, our GPS, did its usual trick of taking us down obscure back roads though, and led us past such scenic points as the…
Cool and damp to warm and dry. That described both the weather and the landscape for us on today’s travels. We woke to persistent rain which was a little daunting as all the sightseeing planned for the first hour or two was outside! We decided to delay our start til…
We don’t seem to have a lot of luck with volcanoes! Last year in Hawaii we stayed in a crater view room overlooking the Kilauea volcano, most of the time we were there the crater was hidden behind thick fog. Yesterday, Mt Rainier, an extinct volcano, stayed “In” and didn’t…
On the road to Mt Rainier In Seattle we learned that Mt rainier dominates the skyline so much that it loomms large in the minds of Seattlites, so much that they just refer to it as “The Mountain”, and they know it’s a fine day when “the Mountain is out”.…
Breakfast view Today was book-ended by two meals with a fine view of the water. Despite both of us being woken briefly by a snoring serenade from the gentleman in the next room, we slept surprisingly well and woke refreshed and ready for a busy day of sightseeing. It was…
Christening the holiday at the Airport hotel We’re finally on our way back to the USA again! We treated ourselves to a night at the Rydges Sydney Airport hotel the evening before the trip so that we wouldn’t have to wrestle with early peak-hour traffic on the M5 and it…
We’re back! …and counting down ( 2 weeks and a couple of days) to another of our Grand Bucket List journeys. I mentioned at the end of this post that after our early trips to the USA we were so enchanted by the scenery and variety of the landscape that…
