by toby | Jul 14, 2015 | Life
We headed for Olympic National Park and cut our time short on Lopez Island for two reasons: 1) to distract me from getting too sad over saying goodbye to the kids, who needed to return to their lives in California as of Sunday afternoon, and 2) to get more time to see...
by toby | Jul 12, 2015 | Life
Getting lost isn't fun, but the thing about adventure is that you can’t just have the pleasant parts. Adventure, by definition, involves risk. Sometimes that risk starts out as innocent fun, and then devolves into something much less pleasant. But let me get to that...
by toby | Jul 9, 2015 | Life
We blew out of the Days Inn in Ellensburg, Washington, with its inedible breakfast (nothing but carbs and a few sad, bruised apples clearly a week past their expiration date) and got on the road for Anacortes. We were somewhere in the middle of Washington, and though...
by toby | Jul 8, 2015 | Life
We awoke to approaching thunderstorms in Glacier National Park on day 22 of our trip, and we had a long way to drive today. We prolonged the journey out of the park and along the thirty miles of the Going to the Sun Road by stopping to take vista shots of the deep...
by toby | Jul 7, 2015 | Life
(Click on any photo to expand and click through as a gallery) The 21st day of our road trip, current location Glacier National Park, Montana, dawned crisply cold with the sound of birds singing in the thin air of 8,000 foot elevation. I woke from the deep sleep that...