Explore nature, both wild and human, with Michael and Christina
We love something about every national park we have visited, but some parks are so dazzling that they become imprinted in our memories, and we could return again and again. Olympic National Park is now one of those parks. Just ten years ago, I was not even familiar with the existence of Olympic National Park….
From Portland we ventured further north than I’ve ever been on the West Coast – almost all the way to the Canadian border. We got an overview of the City of Seattle as we sat in traffic on Interstate 5 and gazed out at the Puget Sound, the Space Needle, and the buildings of downtown….
After our adventures in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and my two-week elemental diet treatment, we spent a week near Portland, partly because my naturopathic doctor is located there, and partly because all those people who say Portland is an awesome city are right! Portland and the surrounding area has a lot more to offer…
Since I seemed to be stable and capable of activity on the elemental diet, we decided to get out and explore the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which surrounded us at Elk Meadows RV Park. Our first day out, we attempted to find trailheads in the Mt. Adams Wilderness with the maps and information provided at…
While we were in central Oregon, I decided to attempt another treatment for my SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth – get the background story here). This time I would do 14 days of the elemental diet. I had attempted three weeks of the elemental diet back in March and had made it to Day 17….
Crooked River Ranch was just an overnight stop for us between running errands in Bend, Oregon and journeying to Trout Lake, Washington where we would stay for 17 days, but it turned out to be a place we wish we had stayed longer. On August 25th, we left the Crescent – La Pine area…
After a couple of days stressing over our trailer problems, we finally got to have some fun! We stayed for a little over a week at Big Pines RV Park in Crescent, Oregon and explored the Cascade Lakes region. Big Pines was a clean and pleasant RV park with a trail that led from the…
On the morning of August 14th, we were going about our usual business of packing up the trailer to move on to our next destination when I reached under the kitchen sink to grab a rag and found it already soaking wet! Further investigation revealed that water leaking from somewhere had flowed across the floor,…
We finally left Red Bluff on August 12, 2016 and towed Foxy north to Crater Lake RV Park in Prospect, Oregon, passing the iconic Castle Crags, Mount Shasta, and Black Butte, and stopping at Wal-Mart in Medford to pick up some groceries on the way. (We’ve become regular Wal-Mart shoppers since taking ownership of a…
We had hoped for many years to see a long-tailed weasel on a trail, or at least its tracks. Michael had a brief interaction with a weasel on the Arroyo Verde trail in Ventura while I was at work a few years back, but I had not yet seen one. We always expect to see…