Author: huftalind
Jewels of the Canadian Rockies
Our last few days in Western Canada were made even better by the arrival of our great friends Jim and Lynn. For years there have been a group of us, self-labeled the Four Seasons and who, early on in our amazing friendship, dreamed of a roadtrip to Banff. The OG, Outdoor Bob, may he rest…
Revelstoke to Golden and Yoho National Park
The drives…. This drive was amazing! You begin to see the mountains rising and the road passing through huge, well built snow sheds and realize the engineering of bridges, tunnels, trainrail, etc..that went into creating this highway. We stopped at the top of the summit, Roger’s Pass, and got our Glacier and Revelstoke National Park…
Oh Canada….
Exciting to move to the other part of ZsaZsa’s slide out to place the first Canadian sticker on our map….Hello BC!! First stop, Vancouver. After following the signs to enter a border crossing, the one with the most narrow entry gates EVER!!, we successfully navigated into the city. Despite what you may hear, you don’t…
Welcome to Washington
This bridge was wild…Astoria-Megler bridge linking Astoria OR to Megler WA crosses the Columbia River as it approaches the Pacific and is impressive, scary, cool and LONG. Seeing it the distance, pulling a 35 ft trailer and knowing we had to cross it was pretty intense. Obviously semis and trailers ahead of us were doing…
Oregon coast
We’ve now camped at or visited Brookings, Bandon, Depoe Bay, Salem and Tillamook and have loved the scenery, rugged ocean capes and lighthouses, green forests and rural roads. The wind….not so much. While it’s beautiful, it’s been a bit chilly and windy but no rain, so we’ve been lucky. Brookings was a small fishing town…
Fern Canyon/Crater Lake
Spent time on Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwood State Park and then drove to Prairie Creek State Park to hike Fern Canyon. Beautiful lush, wet canyon literally steps away from the Pacific Ocean and Gold Bluffs beach. Hit the road and drove up HWY 199 through Jedidiah Smith State Park (all park of…
The first few days…
From SLC to Lovelock to Chico…. Making our way to the Redwoods, we had two quick stops in NV and CA; Great little micro-winery with fun company and a rooster, baby goat wake up call…. Be kind…I’m trying to figure out this blog and it may take me awhile….:)