Thanks to an amazing friend I found myself in Puerto Vallarta for the week of Thanksgiving, with the only catch being that my friend wasn’t actually there on the day or the weekend after – giving me the opportunity to explore the city and surrounding area after first getting settled in with her. Definite disclaimer …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Fitting everything into a weekend trip to Olympic NP can seem harder to do than visiting its two sister national parks, given the park’s location across Puget Sound from Seattle and with such a large area …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Visiting North Cascades National Park requires somewhat strategic timing, as Highway 2 (also known as the North Cascades Highway) closes during the winter – and if you visit too soon after it reopens, many of the …
Vancouver, BC is just a three hour drive north of my hometown of Seattle, but I’m embarrassed to admit that other than Handmaid’s Tale-induced fantasies of possible escape routes from the political apocalypse, I haven’t given it much thought since I last visited on a family vacation when I was 12. On my last visit …
This is a bit of a cheat on the “48 hours” concept because really you should go to Maine for at least four days, and this is a one-way trip that starts in Acadia. What I actually did was fly into Boston in the evening, drive up to the Acadia area (a cute AirBnB in …
While it feels like my family explored every corner of Washington state and even ventured into Oregon plenty, when I was growing up we never spent time in California. I had visited friends in LA and SF during college but I had never had a car on those trips to help me get to the …