Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in Washington
Taking Lizzy through the Rocky Mountains & High Plains! After 2+ years of only taking short trips around Washington & Oregon, we are finally heading out on a longer trip! We’ve planned a 7-week Loop Trip, mostly in the Rocky Mountains. While we’re out, we’ll be staying at 17 different Read more
National Park Day Trip Album at: February 14-21, 2022 Overview We took another Valentine-ish Getaway to Olympic National Park, 3 nights at Kalaloch Lodge (beautiful sunsets), 4 nights at Lake Quinault Lodge. We had rain in the Olympic Rain Forest, but also a fair bit of sun, some clouds and Read more
Lizzy Adventure Album at: September 22-October 3, 2021 Overview Eleven day Lizzy trip back to the NW coast, hanging out 4 days at the cutest KOA on Willapa Bay and then a week back at Fort Stevens State Park, near Astoria, OR at the mouth of the Columbia. A short get-away before we Read more
Northwest Visit Album at: July 21-26, 2021 Overview In late July, we had company visit from Dallas, Mark’s “old” AT&T friends Pradeep & Mili and their daughter Oly. They were our first house guests since the spring of 2019 (and the first people, other than ourselves, in the house at Read more
Lizzy Adventure Album at: June 10-15, 2021 Overview Five day Lizzy trip to the Columbia Gorge, with Alyson, staying in Cascade Lock, OR. We had 3 days to visit sites in Washington and Oregon, West and East along the great river, and a day in Cascade Locks, itself. We re-visited/visited: Historic Columbia River Read more
Lizzy Adventure Album at: October 25-30, 2020 Overview Five day Lizzy trip to the Bavarian-styled town of Leavenworth, in the central Cascades of Washington. We went up on Sunday, and Alyson joined us on Monday for the rest of the week. We re-visited/visited: Leavenworth: Wandering around, eating Bavarian food, doing a Read more
Lizzy Adventure Album at: March 17-May 2, 2020 In Mid-March we aborted our Adventures to Self-Isolate in Lizzy for awhile in Apache Junction…until…we hightailed it home, arriving May 2. Overview Starting March 17, due the Covid-19 Pandemic, we canceled the rest of our reservations for our Southern Arizona Adventure and Read more
NW/NE Family Visit Album at: November 16, 2019-January 15, 2020 Overview We took a 2 month break from “Life with Lizzy“, mid November to mid January. We took a Road Trip Home from Morgan Hill in November, spent the Holidays with various friends & relatives in the Northwest and Northeast, Read more
Road Trip Album at: November 11-15, 2019 Overview We took Five Days on a road trip with The Beast, to drive home from Morgan Hill, CA, where we left Lizzy for a couple of months. We took off Monday to visit Bill-C & Judith in Palo Alto and spend our Read more
National Park Day Trip Album at: September 12-13, 2019 Overview Short, overnight trip to visit Mount Rainier, our last National Park to visit together in Washington, and our 151st overall. We drove up to Mt. Rainier on Thursday, stayed at Paradise Lodge, and drove back Friday. We made it to Read more