Today was a rather uneventful day…well, most of it. We left Kamloops at 8:30 and 72 degrees with clear blue skies, and before the day was done, it had reached 97. We have no complaints about the heat, after all, we live in Florida. We like warm weather. The drive to the border took most of the morning, through sometimes desert-like areas with yellow grass and sage plants spread everywhere, and later through rolling hills…I guess this was the footh...

We left Vancouver this morning at 8:10 AM and 68 degrees and began by retracing the route that had taken us to Vancouver from Seattle. It is the only route…down I-5. We spent about 20 minutes at the boarder stop…again the border agent was surprised to hear we had driven all the way from Florida. Are we nuts? Perhaps. The plan for today was to try and see Mt. Rainer. The forecast was for cloudy skies and snow above 8500 feet. We were not at all optim...

An interesting day it was. Our plan today was to go sightseeing on Puget Sound in the morning then visit Pike Market in the afternoon. We left the hotel at 9 AM, 64 degrees, and headed north on I-5. The first thing I saw when we hit the road was a long chain of mountains to the east, with those now familiar trails of snow bleeding down the sides. Since the sky was blue today and the sun was shining brightly, we could see them clearly in their majestic splendor. ...

The plan for today was to drive to Seattle, and on the way, take a detour to Mt. Rainer Nation Park. Unfortunately, it was overcast and the ceiling was very low, so any attempt to see a mountain that is over 14,000 ft. would have been fruitless. We decided   instead to head to Seattle and let the day tell us what we should do. And it did. We left the hotel in Portland at 9:00 AM, 57 degrees and pointed the Highlander north. And less than five minutes later, we...