Okay, one more post about the places Denise and I visited while we were down on the Oregon Coast in December. After leaving Tillamook and stopping off at Sand Lake Estuary and visiting with a new friend, we found ourselves at Cape Kiwanda at lunch time. I have visited Pacific City and Cape Kiwanda before on a family camping trip, but we…
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Do YOU Talk To Strangers?
Do your adventures sometimes end up taking a turn you didn’t expect? Do you ALLOW your adventures to do so? I shared a beach walk that we did in Oregon in December, the hike picked randomly out of Day Hiking The Oregon Coast book. But I didn’t share the WHOLE story of what happened to…
Enough Of This Rain!!
I truly love where I live here in the Pacific Northwest but I am so over this rain. I may have to move in with my uncle in Sequim, they say it’s is driest part of our state. Who else is daydreaming of their next outdoor adventure? What else is there to do when the…
Our Colorado Family Road Trip
For Christmas, my bf’s oldest (with help from her younger siblings) made me a scrapbook of our time together this last summer and I realized I hadn’t really done a post on our trip yet here on the blog. Sometimes my hiking is part of a great plan, like this last summer when I joined a road…
Lemon Tarragon Chicken Salad
Jump to the recipe… #shreddedcabbage #cannedchicken #sunflowerseeds #oliveoil #lemon #tarragon #seasalt This recipe is for car camping and shorter trips into the backcountry where weight is not as much of an issue or you just want to enjoy something more fresh. I packed this for our trip to Colorado this summer, as well as…
Forks, WA: Buried Treasure in The Twilight Zone
We did a little car camping and beach walking over on the Olympic Peninsula over the Thanksgiving Day weekend and it is no exaggeration that I LOVE the beach. We stayed in the Kalaloch campground and with the rain, didn’t bother to set up a tent. I know you see all those glamorous shots of…






