After Mount Rainier, we raced up to Sea-Tac to drop off Terry. He was to fly back to Toronto and we continued our trip by returning to Portland for another load-up of wine — this time from the Willamette Valley wineries. After filling the back of the truck up again, we headed out along the…
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Heading north from Crater Lake, past Portland and into Washington State we headed to Mount Rainier National Park. Unfortunately we arrived to late for a campsite in the park so we stopped at Alexander’s Inn. Interestingly, they have a house for rent adjacent to the Inn and that night it was not taken so we…
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Crater Lake is a water filled caldera left from the remains of Mount Mazuma. The water is very deep and still and clear. This gives it an incredible blue colour that is just very hard to believe even when you are looking at it.
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We headed into Northern California to experience the majesty of the redwoods. Unfortunately, the first night we stayed in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, we managed to total the back window on the truck. [This was the last time we used those elastic bungy cords to strap our roof carrier onto the truck!]. As such we…
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After getting our fill of San Fran, we proceeded into the holiday portion of our trip with a start of the Napa and particularly the Sonoma Wine Country. Our focus, of course, was to stock up the back of the truck with sufficient wine to last until we got to Portland and the Willamette Valley!…
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Following our first fully equipped road trip in the fall of 1992, and encouraged by our enjoyment of it, we planned a greater and longer trip. In the fall of 1993 my companions and I went on a road trip to see the West Coast of the US and then return home eastward along the…
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We left the Smoky Mountains to visit Washington DC. We decided to take a leisurely drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway (in the Smoky Mountains) and the interconnecting Skyline Ridge Parkway (in the Shenandoah). These parkways are slow travel but very scenic. The day was somewhat overcast as we started and the picture below certainly…
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After our spelunking experience we drifted eastward into the Great Smoky Mountains national park. We stayed in a less frequented part of the park near Crosby. The main area around Gatlinburg is very busy and commercial. The area around Crosby highlights the quiet and rich nature of a climax eastern forest. The two photos below…
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Having followed the Parkway along the Natchez Trace from Natchez through to Tupelo, we skipped out to the main highways and continued north into Kentucky to see the Mammoth Cave National Park. We took several cave tours and explored the cave system — we considered the ‘Wild Cave Tour’ but did not have enough time…
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Finished with New Orleans, we headed north along the Natchez Trace Parkway. The parkway follows an old trail from Natchez to (near) Nashville. The trace was used by folks taking their goods to market in the port cities of the south from the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. They would float the goods down by river…
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