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To give us a bit of perspective on where we are, we picked out the Lake Chelan Historical Society museum on Woodin Avenue in downtown Chelan. We were greeted by Carla whose Great Grandfather brought his family to Chelan in the late Nineteenth Century. His plan was to...
Why do we find dams and hydroelectric power plants fascinating? Certainly it has nothing to do with one of us being a retired power generation engineer. The Rock Island Dam south of Wenatchee, Washington, his the distinction of being the first dam across the Columbia...
At some point more than ten million years ago here in what is now Washington State, the hills and valleys were lush with ginkgo, cypress, walnut, hickory, maple and many more kinds of trees when cataclysmic lava flows covered the landscape and turned into basalt....
Today's route is taking us south along Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway and along the shore of Soap Lake.  This place intrigues us because it is a meromictic lake, one of the few lakes in the world where the layers of water do not intermix. We encountered the phenomenon...
After this morning's hike along the Bunch Grasses Trail out of Spring Canyon Campground near Grand Coulee, Washington, we're preparing to decamp from Site #18. It's been a great two night stay. We enjoyed some visits with neighbors as well as just some delicious...
See Park Video See History Video This afternoon we visited the Grand Coulee Dam Visitors Center. When we visited here ten years ago our focus was on the guided tour of the Third Power Plant. This time we watched the video documenting the process of construction of...
Today we returned to Dry Falls. In 2008 we stopped here just because we spotted the Brown Sign and it was then that we began to learn about the Missoula Floods, the series of catastrophic floods that occurred during the Last Ice Age and so dramatically sculpted the...
Our plans to just relax and watch the sun set this evening were revised when we learned that there would be a laser light show at Grand Coulee Dam this evening. We decided to take advantage of the opportunity and headed to the dam as dusk began to settle. We went down...
Perched above Lake Roosevelt, we're ensconced in Spring Canyon Campground on Site #18. It's time to relax in this beautiful place. Yesterday after the T@B Breakfast we took time for mundane things like an oil change, getting one of our security keys replaced. Ask us...
One of the features of Peaceful Pines is the proximity to some very busy BNSF railroad tracks. Trains are coming and going at all hours. This morning we walked out to a path along the tracks and watched long long freight trains passing us in both directions trying to...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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To view the Visitors Center Video click here An icon of the American West, the Sagauro (sah-WAH-row) are the giants among cacti found only in the Sonoran Desert, limited in the US primarily to southern Arizona. Who could resist getting up close and personal with a few...
Click Here for Park Videos It was a ranger in Big Bend who told us about Chiricahua National Monument near Willcox, Arizona in the southeastern part of the state. Knowing that legislation has been presented to Congress to change it's status to a national park, he...
Today we visited Stratford upon Avon. That is the ruins of the historic Stratford Hotel on Avon Avenue in the ghost town of Shakespeare near Lordsburg, New Mexico. A small spring here in southern New Mexico served as a source of water for travelers at least since the...