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: Family Vacations
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
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
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
East Coast Canada Summer Vacation: Cape Breton
In the last post, I wrote about the first leg of our summer vacation, which was primarily in Prince Edward Island. I left off just as we were about to get on the ferry atContinue reading
East Coast Canada Summer Vacation: Halifax to Prince Edward Island
I decided to plan a summer vacation to the East Coast of Canada for two main reasons: Anne of Green Gables (which put Prince Edward Island on the itinerary) and fiddle music (which added CapeContinue reading