Monthly Archives: June 2013

Day Trip to Seattle and Saint Saëns Concert

Yesterday we ran some errands and bought some stuff we needed…and pretty much sat around the rest of the day. Today (Sunday) we headed off to Mass at St. John Bosco Parish and then headed off for the 45 mile … Continue reading

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Travel Day to Fort Lewis WA

Well, at least the weather was nice today. We packed up and headed out around 1000 for our 160 mile trip from Leavenworth to Fort Lewis slightly south of Tacoma. Our route came across US-2 through the mountains…it was narrow, … Continue reading

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A Great Day in Leavenworth, WA

Man, Levenworth WA is a really great little town…we wish we could spend some more time here as the scenery is great, the food wonderful, the hikes outstanding, and it’s generally a really nice place. We woke up this morning … Continue reading

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Wandering Around Leavenworth WA

Today was supposed to be sort of rainy so we deferred our planned hike until tomorrow. Instead; Connie worked in the morning while Neil did some maintenance. He had to hose out some gravel from our undercarriage from our aborted … Continue reading

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One Year Anniversary of Full Timing

This month we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of the full time lifestyle on June 15. Exactly one year ago we pulled out from Camp Horizons headed back to Fairfax, VA with our new home. I figured that the anniversary … Continue reading

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Transit to Leavenworth WA

  Monday morning we got up to (you guessed it) more rain but we were scheduled to move southwards so Neil put on rain gear and set up the outside while Connie did the inside. We pulled out about 0930 … Continue reading

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Syphon Falls Hike, Osprey Family and Other Waterfowl

Man; what a difference 250 miles and a day make…today was beautiful. We woke up to bright sunny skies so after Mass we headed off on a short hike of about 2 miles to Syphon Falls right near where we … Continue reading

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Escape From Banff

Well, today dawned with partly cloudy skies so Connie ran downtown to check the internet and road conditions heading west while Neil rigged the house for transit. The road east to Calgary is closed; the freeway was washed out by … Continue reading

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We’re Trapped……Maybe

Well, we might be trapped here in Banff; but before I get into that here’s another edit of the shot we took at Moraine Lake over near Lake Louise the other day. Neil is playing around with the HDR stuff … Continue reading

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Agnes Lake Teahouse and other Lake Louise Area Adventures

  Tuesday opened up dark and stormy; not the sunny morning that the weather guessers predicted. By about 1000 or so the skies to the west were brightening some so Neil rousted Connie away from her backed up Wall Street … Continue reading

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