adventures

[nibot]

Looking at the map, the potential adventure to be had is just obscene. Olympic National Park! Rainforests! Hot Springs! Mt. Rainer! Mt. St. Helens! (Volcanoes!) The Cascades! The Pacific Ocean! Archipelagos! Jesus! (That is an exclamation! He is not actually here!) I wish I had a month, a tent (or a vanagon!), and, (no offense to dear old Stefanos), the girl! (Maybe in May!)

I'm thinking of looping up on 101 around Olympic NP, maybe staying in a hostel in either Forks or Aberdeen rather than trying to make it all the way down to Portland or Eugene quite yet.

Comments

[evan.livejournal.com]

Aberdeen is lame, aside from being where Kurt Cobain was from.

I'll give you a list of sights in Portland once you get there.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Lame, maybe, but it's en route and has a hostel! However, noted.

[evan.livejournal.com]

I've never actually looked around much, but as far as I know it's a small logging town.

[kari-marie.livejournal.com]

Did St. Helens last summer, and it was pretty fun. If you do head down to Portland, a visit to Powell's Books (http://www.powells.com/) is definitely a must--that place is incredible.

[chiriklo-star.livejournal.com]

Oh man oh man Powell's Books is heavenbliss

You are entirely surrounded by every book you've ever imagined being published

It is wonderful

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Powell's books is pretty much the only thing I know in Portland.

Present company excluded of course. (I love saying that.)

[kari-marie.livejournal.com]

:-)

If you do make it to northern Oregon and have some time (a day or two) to spend down there, other than shamster (and I don't know if you'd want to drive that far down) Astoria/Cannon Beach (where the Goonies was filmed) is fun and touristy, as well as the big-assed bridge (http://www.oldoregon.com/Pages/AstoriaBridge.html) that's down there. Driving east from Portland, you can go up the Columbia River to the Bonneville Dam/Locks (pretty neat) and then on up to Grand Coulee (although I don't know if you've driven down and seen all that stuff the times you've been in Richland/Tri-Cities area.)

But again, that's a couple days worth of activities right there, travel time excluded.

Oh, and I don't know what the weather is like, but in the Seattle area, you can check out Snowqualmie Falls (http://www.snoqualmiefalls.com/), and the hike up Mt Si (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.mountsi.com/&e=9797) is a good one.

[kari-marie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I totally misspelled Snoqualmie. My sister would have a fit. I was distracted while typing. :-)

[kari-marie.livejournal.com]

My folks own property up there--it's where they want to retire. Very pretty little area. :-)

Oh, and Tobin--if you do head out to the Penninsula, check out Fort Flagler State Park--there are a bunch of old military bunkers--some well-preserved, some that are slowly being reclaimed by the forest, complete with stalactites forming on the ceilings and a few bats. It's pretty neat.

(I think it's about a 20-min. drive from Port Townsend.)

[nibot.livejournal.com]

recommendations?

[shamster.livejournal.com]

Get your travelling in before hitting Eugene. Not that it isn't a hugely great towne, but you'll find it's a bit sleepier than the big cities. Check the eugene weekly online for events/music and pick out one you'd like to see. There are shows every night here, but you have to come prepared.

great local hikes, though :)

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

When might you be in Portland? Or is this not happening? Give me a call if/when you get there, since I may still/already be in town for a confernece.

[erinmack.livejournal.com]

DUNGENESS SPIT (outside of Sequim) rules!