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

Wedding Voyage 2011 - First Leg

We finally got out of town last night around rush hour.  It would have been sooner, but we had some last minute stops — like buy­ing $600 worth of booze for the wedding.

We got to Golden around 8:30, and met up with my brides­maid Sab­rina at Timmy’s.  We decided to try to find one of the camp­sites in our ‘Camp Free in BC’ book.  The only snag we hit was one measly closed off road, but we found a way around it and found our­selves a beau­ti­ful, per­fect lit­tle site right next to Wait­abit Creek.  We cooked up some

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June 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding, Ziggy | 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

Dreaming of a Wet Christmas…

We finally got to Brian’s Mom’s place in White Rock on Wednes­day night around 11pm.  After set­tling in and a small amount of vis­it­ing, we got to bed around mid­night — Some­how exhausted after our day of doing noth­ing but sit­ting around in the airport.

On Thurs­day, we did some laun­dry, vis­ited with an aunt and uncle who stopped by, and did some last minute Christ­mas shopping.

We also vis­ited the ocean — twice.  First in the day­light, when the sky was omi­nous and gray, and the waves were thrashy. Then we came back after dark, when we could only

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December 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Christmas, Vacation | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Brunswick — Second Installment

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As we fell asleep in the old man­sion in Fred­er­ic­ton, the rain started. We could hear it pitter-pattering on the roof and the win­dows, and church bells in the dis­tance. We slept long and deep. In the morn­ing, we had break­fast in the par­lour, and chit-chatted with other vis­i­tors — a man and a woman on sep­a­rate busi­ness trips, a young Toron­ton­ian who was check­ing out the Uni­ver­sity hop­ing to attend in the fall, and a physics pro­fes­sor in his 60’s who was in town for a math conference.

After break­fast, we packed up and headed out into

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June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: East Coast, New Brunswick, Road Trip, Vacation | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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