Gleneden Beach: We’re Home

Why choose the Oregon coast for a month-long stay in late fall? Because it is beautiful here and being the off-season, far less crowded and more affordable than in the summer. And it seemed like it would be the part of the northwest where we’d find the most temperate weather. This has proven true –…

Pals, Parks, and Portland – the three P’s of the PNW

We ended up planning over two weeks of travel between our two long stays in this leg because there is a lot of the Pacific Northwest (aka, the PNW) we wanted to see. So after three nights at Yellowstone and a quick stop in Missoula, we were on to beautiful Washington State. This required driving…

A Tale of Three Parks

Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton are three of the most popular national parks in the U.S. And we got to visit all of them in the course of just over a week. Glacier National Park The week before we left Libby, we did one more trip over to Glacier. Labor Day weekend there had been…

Lovable Little Libby

When I published my first Libby blog post, we’d just been beset by smoke from the West Coast wildfires. The smoke ended up lasting a full week, during which time we were unable to do much in Libby. For most of that week, the air quality was classified as “hazardous” and later “very unhealthy.” That…