Monthly Archives: July 2012

Seattle, WA During the Pike Market Food and Culture Tour yesterday the guide suggest that if you wanted a beautiful view of the Seattle area, go up the Columbia Center building, which is the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest. … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA Two of our gang of three decided that they would leave the third uninterested member of the gang sitting in a coffee shop working on a blog.  They joined a tour of the Pike Market area called Pike … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA On Sunday the skies were clear, so we headed about 60 miles south to do some hiking on Mt. Rainier.  At 14,411 feet, Mt. Rainier is the highest mountain in the Cascade Range and is considered one of … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA One of the “must visit” places in Seattle is the famous Pike Place Market.  Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront. The Market opened in  1907, and is one of the oldest continually operated public farmers’ markets in … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA Ok,  Pennsylvania is not considered the “far east”,  but from Seattle it is “far to the east”.  Nevertheless, our daughter, Jessica, arrived at a very busy Sea-Tac Airport on Friday morning after a direct flight from Baltimore. Once … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA On our first full day in Seattle, we drove north to Everett, WA to visit one of the Boeing assembly plants in the Seattle area.  The Boeing Everett Factory is located on the northeast corner of Paine Field, a small … Continue reading →

Seattle, WA We left the Spokane area early on Tuesday morning and headed west on I-90.  We believe that this is the last time we will head west on this journey, as the Pacific Ocean presents too large an obstacle … Continue reading →

Deer Park, WA Today was our last day in the Spokane area so, after a morning of cleaning and waxing the motorhome we headed for the city for some bicycling on the Centennial Trail, a paved bike path that goes … Continue reading →

Deer Park, WA Sunday morning we watched the final round of the British Open.  One of the nice things about being in the Pacific Time Zone is that it was on very early and ended before 11:00 am.  After the … Continue reading →

Deer Park, WA The past few days we have just been hanging out in Deer Park running errands and doing some work around the motorhome.  Both of us had our hair attended to (one cost considerably less than the other, … Continue reading →