I get a bit lazy with taking pictures when we’re in areas I’ve been before, but I took my camera out while we were wandering Paso Robles and tried to take a few pictures. The vines were much greener and bushier than they were when we went to Napa four months ago. I [...]

After our Wednesday wanderings of Portland, Oregon and Crater Lake National Park, we finally found our way back to California after nearly 4 months. We initially had planned to drive to Eureka, CA, but instead drove all the way to Sacramento, CA (although we still did drive through the Redwoods National Park and state [...]

“It’s time to go,” says Travis, so here goes:

Crater Lake National Park was underwhelming for us — this was partially our fault, and partially the fault of mother nature. We left Portland, Oregon early afternoon and weren’t slated to hit Crater Lake until around 5pm. This would have been fine on a normal [...]

Today we left Seattle, WA and decided to tour the northern Oregon coast before driving to Portland, OR. We started out by driving towards Astoria, OR, which took us through Olympia, WA. I randomly remembered that Olympia was the capital of Washington, so (since I was driving) I decided we were stopping to [...]

Today we drove from Spokane, WA to Seattle, WA for the second time this trip. Since we looped up through northern Canada we had the choice of either driving from Banff, AB to Kamloops, BC to Seattle, WA, a route which Travis has already travelled (from Banff to Kamloops), or we could go from [...]

After spending a few days in Calgary, we are finally back to our actual driving and road trip wanderings. Today we made the journey from Calgary to Banff, which was a fairly short drive (~80 miles). Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park, established in 1885 — it’s located in the Canadian [...]

Time to restart blogging! The past week and a half has been a vacation (from vacation) for me, and a lot of driving for Travis. I flew home to Orange County on the 8th for a job interview (which I didn’t get) and spent time catching up with friends and family. Travis [...]

Travis has been doing some work up in northern British Columbia, but we still had time to explore Prince Rupert. Our ferry arrived Sunday night, and after our initial hotel fiascoes we settled in fairly comfortably.
One of the things we did was visit the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward. It is the [...]

Sunday we woke up at the impossibly early hour of 5am to check-out and drive to the ferry dock. They request you arrive 1.5 - 2 hours before the 7:30am launch, so we got there promptly at 5:30am only to be greeted by a 40 minute line of cars to check in. Unlike [...]

Today we drove Vancouver Island south to north, Victoria to Port Hardy. We decided not to partake in any random tourist activities, since the two things that were most appealing were more gardens or bear tours — we went to the best garden yesterday, and any bear tours would have likely been pretty expensive. [...]