“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 [...]

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 Gravy. Our book describes [...]

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 [...]

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 the only day we’d actually [...]

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 [...]

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 glaciers on them! We [...]

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 (although I believe it is [...]

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 Prince Rupert, since that was [...]

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 [...]

Most of the places we’ve visited on our road trip are places neither one of us have been before, but every once in awhile we revisit a place to reminisce. I got to visit my old home of 8 years in Massachusetts, and we had fun tracking down my dad’s old house in Mississippi, [...]