nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2006-03-14 08:54 am
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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.
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[identity profile] kari-marie.livejournal.com 2006-03-14 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] chiriklo-star.livejournal.com 2006-03-14 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2006-03-14 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Powell's books is pretty much the only thing I know in Portland.

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

[identity profile] kari-marie.livejournal.com 2006-03-14 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

If you do make it to northern Oregon and have some time (a day or two) to spend down there, other than [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] kari-marie.livejournal.com 2006-03-14 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and I totally misspelled Snoqualmie. My sister would have a fit. I was distracted while typing. :-)
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