Wanderlusty Wednesday: Planning a Pacific Northwest Road Trip
I’ve officially decided on a Pacific Northwest road trip for my (woefully short) vacation this year, and I need help…
Where should we go? What should we do? We’re thinking of flying in and out of Seattle and hitting up Vancouver on the way because we have friends/cousins in those cities, but from what I understand they’re not that far apart, so there’s time to do other stuff as well (we have 9 days). I would like some nature-y, mountain-y stuff but nothing too crazy as we’ll be flying and don’t have room to pack hiking gear and tents and the like. But we do love the outdoors.
Suggestions, please!
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Visit Edward Cullens *stares with wide eyes* *runs out of blog*
Hahaha, looking at the map I saw “Forks” and was like OMG, but my boyfriend would NOT be too pleased if I took him on a Twilight tour. The movie scarred him for life!
hahahah my husband no longer takes movie advice from me. Dare I say “that was a good movie,” the immediate response is “you liked Twilight, whaddya know about good movies”
There are some great harbor, island, underground, and seaplane tours in Seattle. My brother is a captain in one of the Harbor tour companies so I go on a lot of those. I took a trip to the San Juan Islands (Lopez island) by Ferry, which was pretty amazing, and those are between Seattle and Vancouver. And of course there is Mt. Rainier. If you have the time, it may be worth driving to south Oregon/northern California to see the coast and Red Woods.
Just a few ideas,
Philip
Thank you!
Here are some guides:
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2016/05/portland_hiking_guide.html
https://www.trails.com/activity.aspx?area=14659
Either way, make sure you take the time to go up to Mount Hood, check out Multnomah Falls, and maybe see the Ape Caves up in Washington.
Thank you!
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You could check out seattle or Olympia there’s a ton of stuff to do and it’s right on the puget sound! so beautiful. If you go to Seattle there’s a ton to do. The monarail for one and there’s a park right under the space needle. And on the docs there’s this store called “ye’ old curiosity shop” and there’s a ton of interesting things to see in there.
Ah we ended up not being able to take this trip, but we’ll file this info away for later for sure!
awe, that’s too bad! I grew up in the North west. Beautiful place. Although I recommend going there in the early summer haha it is a bit rainy!