If you thought Northwest ski areas were just for skiing, then drop by one of them during the heat of the summer and you’ll see that hikers and bikers are also getting good use out of these mountains and the resort lifts. More and more nowadays, ski resorts are becoming year-round businesses, looking for ways to …
If you’re visiting Seattle and are into ghostly sightings I’ll just go ahead and save you some money. Seattle’s ghost tours are very tame. Unless it includes a pub crawl you’ll be hard-pressed to have any fun at all, let alone get spooked. In fact, Seattle’s underground tour was slightly more spooky than the ghost …
“Whistler is getting so boring. I wish they’d have some interesting new attractions” said no one ever. Despite no one clamoring for it, pretty much everything thrill-seeker in the area was thrilled when Whistler announced a new adrenaline-inducing attraction: one of the highest suspension bridges in North America. The Cloudraker Skybridge spans 427 feet over …
If you’re looking to camp in your van, it’s likely that we’re either best friends or enemies. Well, not really, but if you’re trying to camp the Oregon coast in a $150k Spring van then we’ll probably be at odds when we pull up in our 30-year-old $800 Club Wagon. So, in the interest of …
Despite living for half of her life in Bellingham my wife had never heard of Teddy Bear Cove. There are a couple of places in Washington to see bioluminescent events so it was a bit of a shock to her to find out about one so close to home. However, like most places, seeing bioluminescence …
Nearly everyone in the U.S. is familiar with the San Juan Islands. Even if people don’t know them by name they’ve likely seen pictures and know that somewhere off the coast of Washington there are some beautiful islands. But they aren’t the other vacation-worthy islands in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, there is a group …
Whether you’re looking to get out of Seattle and experience nature, kayak with whales, or explore from Olympia your destination is the same: the Puget Sound. The Puget Sound has been drawing paddlers in for (literally) hundreds of years. These days this means that there are plenty of places on the Puget Sound where you …
If there is any state that you would expect to have the biggest and most impressive trees, it’s Washington. Washington is known as the Evergreen State for a reason and is often regarded as the wettest and greenest state in the Pacific Northwest. However, even Washington can’t have everything. We recently took a road trip …
I’m not sure why but every little boy goes through a period when they love trains. Some of us just never grow out of it. However, convincing my wife and two daughters to spend a day or more on a train or at a train museum requires a pretty good sales pitch. Unless, of course, …
Despite having lived near the Oregon Coast I’ve never learned much about the ocean and the creatures that live in it. Sure, I love walking down the beach but, whenever my parents visit it’s like they expect me to have achieved marine biologist status just by proximity to the ocean. No, I don’t know what …