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 is day #2 of our 7 day stay in Maine (or the 2nd full day anyway). We were in New Hampshire on Thursday night/Friday morning, but decided to do absolutely nothing while we were there since it was raining and everything I wanted to do was spoiled by that. We’re only about [...]

The Outer Banks is a strip of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. Our original plan was to take a 2 hour car ferry to the southern end of the islands and travel northward, but since we don’t plan ahead we called the ferry company the Saturday morning only to find out [...]