Month: August 2018

August 24, 2018 Lynne 2 comments

There were a few things that we definitely wanted to do on our epic cross-country US road trip.  Seeing the Redwoods was one of them.  As we drove Highway 101 out of Oregon and into Northern California, Nick and I scoured the woods at the roadside for our first glimpse of the Redwoods.  We saw…

August 14, 2018 Lynne 4 comments

When my kids were growing up, they only had a few computer games.  One of them was “The Oregon Trail”. After the kids went to bed at night, I would spend hours playing that game.  I had lots of images in my head about Oregon, but I was about to be surprised. For my fellow…

August 7, 2018 Lynne 2 comments

I’d be lying if I said we weren’t nervous about crossing the mountains that stood between us and the west coast.  There’s really no avoiding them.  We relied heavily on Google in our decision to take route I-90 from South Dakota, through Wyoming and Montana and into Idaho. We left our campground bright and early,…