Trip

Washington With Bones – Part 4A: Mt. Rainier From Paradise

The morning of Day 4 (Tuesday) dawned cool and foggy. It had gotten down to about 45 deg the night before, enough to prompt an extra layer in Bones to stay warm. The fog had settled into the little creek valley and plunged our campsite into low visibility mist. We'd had no more visitation or…Read more Washington With Bones – Part 4A: Mt. Rainier From Paradise

Washington With Bones – Part 3: Hoh Rainforest

The Hoh Rainforest gets an average of 140 inches of rain every year. That's more than 3 times as much as stereotypically rainy Seattle, only 100 miles away, gets. The Olympic Range catches all the moisture coming in off the Pacific and dumps it onto the westward slopes, generating the famous temperate rainforests, of which…Read more Washington With Bones – Part 3: Hoh Rainforest

Washington With Bones – Part 2C: Sol Duc and Rialto Beach

It had already been a long day by the time we navigated the windy road down off Hurricane Ridge and traveled, once again, along the south shore of Lake Crescent. The lake is beautiful, but I was really starting to feel stuck in this one little area. We'd been back and forth along this stretch…Read more Washington With Bones – Part 2C: Sol Duc and Rialto Beach

Washington With Bones – Part 2B: Hurricane Ridge

Leaving Marymere Falls, we headed back out toward Port Angeles to visit the destination we didn't have time for the day before - Hurricane Ridge. It's a commonly visited spot, at the end of the main National Park access road out of Port Angeles, but it's popular for a reason, and even though it represented…Read more Washington With Bones – Part 2B: Hurricane Ridge

Assateague Island National Seashore, MD

Running for 37 miles along Maryland's eastern shore, Assateague Island is wild Atlantic coast. It's a barrier island, long and slender with the Atlantic Ocean on on the east side and a shallow saltwater bay on the west. In between, several different ecosystems and habitats shift with the seasonal ebb and flow of tides, coastal…Read more Assateague Island National Seashore, MD

Iceland 2019 – Part 6, Southern Coast

This is part six in a series outlining my family's exploration of Iceland during the summer of 2019, pre-COVID. It was a mostly outdoor experience, exploring the wild and natural sights of a beautiful country during the height of summer. For the full journey, and notes on places to go and things to see, check…Read more Iceland 2019 – Part 6, Southern Coast

Long Overdue – A Camping Weekend on the Chesapeake

A gentle breeze blows through the tall pines that line the edges of the cliff. Waves lap against the cliff several hundred feet below, as the Chesapeake Bay slowly carves into land which once formed the bed of an inland sea, and still releases Miocene fossils onto the beach below. Canada geese erupt with a…Read more Long Overdue – A Camping Weekend on the Chesapeake