by Deonne Kahler | Nov 23, 2015 | Travel
Sometimes simple is best. At least that’s what I think the namers of Washington’s First Beach were thinking when they came up with that moniker. There’s also Second Beach. I imagine them being so proud of themselves, sitting around the table,...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 18, 2015 | Travel
Let’s start by getting all your jokes about the name out right now. I’ll go: If a tree falls in the rain forest, does a ho hear it? Ha ha! Hilarious! Okay, enough. The Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park is no laughing matter – except for the...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 10, 2015 | Travel
Sam and I had been on the road a few weeks by the time we found the campground at Kalaloch Beach (“clay-lock”) in Olympic National Park, Washington. For this last Scamp I had set up what turned out to be an exhausting pace, driving hither and yon...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 2, 2015 | Travel
My favorite color combination – what, you don’t have one? – is green and blue. I realized this when I looked around my house the other day and saw those colors featured in almost every room. Lucky for me the National Parks, and nature in general,...
by Deonne Kahler | Oct 27, 2015 | Travel
I titled the post this because a) it’s what the national monument is called, and b) it sounds like jibberish. As if I, apropos of nothing, announced, “Millard Fillmore Batik Scarf Squadron.” Which would be equally amusing – or maybe...
