http://lindsaymeares.com/blog Travelogue 2009 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:23:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=574 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 ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=569 "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 ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=564 I feel like I'm falling behind on blogging because I haven't been able to post yesterday's wanderings until today, which means I probably won't do today's until tomorrow. *sigh* We started our day yesterday by trying one of the restaurants mentioned in our guidebook, a brunch place called ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=561 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 ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=554 When we were in Seattle a month ago one of the things we thought about doing was watch a baseball game at the local stadium. We often consider this idea on our trip (we've actually considered rearranging bits of our trip around the LA Dodgers schedule), but thus far ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=549 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), ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=545 Today we decided to hit up a few more places that Travis remembered (or thought he did) from the last time he was in Banff. The first place we stopped was Lake Louise, which had the turquoise waters of yesterday's Lake Minnewonka, but the mountains in the background had ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=539 Today was Banff exploration day #1. This is probably more of a photo dump than anything else, since I don't really have anything to say for today other than we walked a lot. We started out by going to Lake Minnewonka, which is the largest lake in Banff ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=525 When I first found out we were going to northern Canada one of my main desires was to see some auroras. My sister linked me to an Aurora Watch website which shows updated views of aurora activity. I watched this website religiously when we were headed up to ... http://lindsaymeares.com/blog/?p=519