Seattle doesn’t have any National Parks, but it was our final stop on our summer vacation and so it deserves a write-up. We took a leisurely drive from our AirBnB near Sedro-Woolley to Seattle, stickingContinue reading
Category: Itineraries
Washington National Parks Vacation: North Cascades and Surroundings
After a long delay… let’s get back to our Washington State Summer vacation! My last installment had us touring around the Olympic Peninsula. Because I did not think to book our ferry tickets far enoughContinue reading
Riverside Lights
I’m going to take a short break from writing up our summer vacation in Washington – if I’m still writing up a summer vacation in December, then clearly there is no need to be timely!Continue reading
Washington National Parks Summer Vacation: The Olympic Peninsula
We visited the State Capitol building on our last morning in Olympia, but I am not the State Capitols freak in the family and so I won’t spend anytime telling you about that. It wasContinue reading
Washington National Parks Summer Vacation: Olympia and Mt. Rainier
I confess that we chose the Washington National Parks for our summer vacation this year for largely pragmatic reasons: Washington state had a high vaccination rate, the flight from San Diego to Seattle would beContinue reading
A Short Visit to Idyllwild
This week is my kids’ Spring Break, and we decided that it would be a good time to venture away from home for the first time during the pandemic. Case counts are not as lowContinue reading
Two Days in LA
I have a trip that was earlier than this one to write about – a week and a half before my husband and I spent a couple of days in LA to celebrate his birthday,Continue reading
Palm Springs Weekend
Our kids are SoCal born and bred- our 10 year old recently complained that it has been cold for so long, and wondered when it would get warm again. By “cold” she meant that theContinue reading
A Day and a Bit in Boston
The single-day flight options from San Diego to Nova Scotia weren’t particularly great, so we decided to include a stop in Boston on either side of our East Coast Canada summer vacation. On the wayContinue reading
East Coast Canada Summer Vacation: Halifax and Surroundings
We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton, and were a little sad at the thought of heading back to the bustle of a city. Luckily, Halifax is a really coolContinue reading