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Monthly Archives: July 2010

09/07/10 Return of the Vagabonds

After almost 11 months on & off the road!

The journey is over! We are back in Minnesota! Dan insisted on a picture of the contents of our car to compare with the one we took the night we left for Portland last September. Notice the beer in front. We couldn’t leave the Northwest without bringing home a few souvenirs.

The car ride from Washington to Minnesota was long and exhausting. 6 states in 3 days!  It feels good to be off the road even though I am feeling a bit of culture shock. I’ll post some thoughts on that soon. Below are photos from quick detours to Little Big Horn Battlefield & Badlands National Park. Enjoy!

Montana's native grasses

Little Big Horn

This is why they call it "Big Sky Country"

The Badlands

07/07/10 Farewell to the Pacific Northwest

We have said farewell to the Pacific Northwest and are currently on our way back to Minnesota. Below are pictures from an amazing 4th of July weekend on Lopez Island in the San Juans north of Seattle. It was a weekend of eating, drinking & talking, playing Uno, walking along the beach & watching fireworks over the Pacific. Dan and Dave made amazing breakfasts & dinners with food we picked up from the island farmers market and farm stands – roast lamb, risotto, roasted veggies, clams & spaghetti, poached eggs over mushrooms. . . it was unbelievable. It was a wonderful end to our time out West.

A quiet beach just five minutes from our cabin

Dan and Dave did the cooking

Niki & I did the eating

02/07/10 One Week

It’s hard to believe that our West Coast Adventure will be over in one week. I really don’t know how I feel right now. Sad? Excited? Tired? I’ve been so many places in the past two months and felt so many different emotions that I think my powers of contemplation are temporarily broken. It might take some time to process everything. So I won’t attempt reflections until the actual end of the trip. In the meantime, here are a few photos from an afternoon in Carkeek Park in northwest Seattle.