Return to Calgary

We left the Bell­town Inn in Seat­tle at about 7:30am and at the rec­om­men­da­tion of the front desk staff went down the street to a lit­tle cafe for some cof­fee and a break­fast to hit the road with.

The map below explains every­thing.  The weather had got­ten sig­nif­i­cantly worse in the 2 days we had been in Seat­tle.  Before there was dry ground, clear roads and bright sun­shine.  Now this had all be replaced with the des­o­late snow that we had thought we had left behind (although to be fair we haven’t seen much this year). Sno­qualmie Pass was worse

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March 6th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Road Trip, Washington | Comments are closed

Driving to Seattle

Fri­day was a day of dri­ving.  We left Mis­soula around 10 am and set forth on our 8 hours drive across 2 and a bit states.

Not much to say except to describe the dif­fer­ent land­scapes and weather pat­terns we encoun­tered. We left the foothills of Mon­tana and crossed the moun­tain pass into Idaho and washington state.

 

We trav­elled through Idaho after about 40 min­utes pass­ing through Coeur d’Alene before cross­ing into Wash­ing­ton state and stop­ping in Spokane for some lunch (we had break­fast) at a quaint local place called the Kalico Kitchen. (Which was a final­ist in the Best

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March 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Idaho, Road Trip, Washington | Comments are closed

Christmas and Boxing Day

We spent Christ­mas morn­ing the way many do — open­ing ‘stock­ing’ presents in our paja­mas, and eat­ing choco­late and man­darin oranges.  We had ‘sticky buns’ (cin­na­mon buns to me) for break­fast, then opened our ‘non-santa’ presents.  For lunch, I made my first attempt at Wife Saver.  It’s a pretty great recipe, if you’ve never tried it — basi­cally a french toast/fritatta casse­role thingy.  And super-tasty.  Look it up if you are unfamiliar!

For Christ­mas Din­ner, we went back over to The Lucas’s — The same fam­ily that hosted the gin­ger­bread extrav­a­ganza on Christ­mas Eve (it should be noted that this

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December 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Christmas, Vacation | Comments are closed