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Forks, Washington/Olympic National Park
... a gravel road onto tribal property to hike a very muddy trail to Cape Flattery, the most northwest point in the lower 48 states. The reward for getting muddy boots was awesome views of the Pacific ocean cliffs, seastacks, marine birds, and a lighthouse on ...
Aug 24, 2011
Enter the Twilight Zone!
... ; busy and we had decided that we could visit it from where we were staying. We turned inland and headed for Forks - home to Twilight Mania! For the uninitiated, the Twilight books (about teenage vampires) have become cult reading over ...
Never seen trees like it!
After an American breakfast (I am getting the hang of making pancakes) we decided to visit the Hoh Rainforest as the weather on the river was slightly murky and as the tide was high at the nearby coast until 3pm, it made sense to go inland in search of ...
waking up at a dragster race
We came into Forks in Washington when it was already dark. There were a couple of RVs standing on a field and we just joined. In the morning there was no sleeping out, since the RVs where part of 1/8 mile drag racing teams, that started the engines at ...
Olympic Peninsula
Here's pics of our drive around the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, including the Hoh Rainforest and Ruby ...
Havre to East Grand Forks!
Havre, Montana to East Grand Forks, Minnesota - are you kidding me? It was a very stressful day for yours truly. Someone let a fly into the truck, and I sat on it or something and it buzzed just terrible and scared me half to death. I thought it was a ...
Day16 Tuesday, August 14 - Minot, ND to Grand Fork
... geographic extremes do. We recalled spending hours watching the sun set at the farthest north west corner of the lower 48 states. Today we drove up, snapped a picture out the window then went for coffee and a cookie near by. ...
Twilight?
... as soon as we enter a new state we get info about its natural beauties. So we see that the next large area is called Forks, maybe we can sleep there since it's too late to set up camp. Apparently we need to watch more television. Everything in this town ...
Sol Duc Hot Springs, Olympic State Park
July 1st. Arrived at the Olympic National Forest where they explained there is full hook up camping within the Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort. So on in we went for 12 miles before arriving at Sol Duc. Crescent Lake is a lake within the National Forest ...
The Twilight Zone
... happy with the nice wedge of cash we'd got back for it and enjoyed a celebratory beer. (Before we set out to drive across the states we did a lot of research about how best to do it and the pros and cons of public transport vs driving, renting vs buying a ...
Forks, Washington
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen 5-23-92 Forks, Washington Cool, Clear We awoke to another special day, cool and clear...perfect. We filled our plates from a breakfast buffet in the motel Lobby, ...
Welcome racers and vampires
... ." The first part referred to was due to several car races on the local track that weekend. The second, I learned, referred to Forks being recently immortalized by Stephanie Meyer in series to teen vampire novels - because of its lack of sun (The name ...
Grand Forks, ND
... ://www.in-forum.com/av/index.cfm?filename=wdaztv10&type=wdaz After the newscast loads, skip to minute 24. As Grand Forks is a large metropolitan area, there are several stories that Don tells me of meeting people on the road there. One young ...
Hoh Rain Forest, Elk Herds & Ruby Beach
Our last day in Washington was fantastic. We began the day in the Hoh Rain Forest. The girls climbed all over the huge fallen trees, and we marveled at the soaring, moss covered limbs of the conifers and maples. We reached the Hoh River and chilled out ...
It is sunny somewhere -Just not here!
Went to bed with heavy rain and when I woke up it was still raining, dark and dreich! This is one of my favorite words and taken from the Urban Dictionary the definition is "Dreich (Old Scots origin). A combination of dull, overcast, drizzly, cold, misty ...
Going down river...
... up towards Canada. The rest of the towns you'd pass right by if ya blinked! We had our eyes on the look out for the Forks. We read there was a high waterfall and some river rafting in the area. We pulled over at the Northern Outdoors which was a lodge, ...
Secluded Beaches & Vampire Dreams
... with mountains in the distance. As our destination grew closer, the girls were about to explode with the excitement of being in Forks, the setting for the Twilight book series. Today I took pictures of the girls in Forks, La Push, and the ...
Twilight Treasures and 2nd Beach in La Push
After sleeping in, the girls checked out every Twilight souvenir shop in Forks. They found lots of things they couldn't live without! We then went to the Forks Hospital for a photo op with Dr. Cullen's reserved parking space. After all that ...
Beautiful scenery, and so-so food
... The day’s agenda was to drive west to Neah Bay and Cape Flattery, which is the northwestern-most point of the continental United States. That whole area is part of the Makah reservation. We’d been warned by other guests at the B&B that ...
“Who you calling a Hoh?”
... I might have been uncoordinated enough to back right into them. The two teenaged girls in the group were wearing Twilight T-shirts. The Forks Visitors Center offered free wi-fi, so I drove over there with the intention of sipping my mocha and working on ...
Hi Hoh, off to the beach we go
... mile hike round trip, let alone a .8 mile to the falls then back. Stupid allergies and medical issues. So we headed back up to Forks and then out to Rialto beach. When we got there, it was raining again. That, and there sure was one noisy ...
Twi-Hards
In Seattle we also discovered that mentioning you are going to Forks (of Twilight fame) is a definite conversation killer. We know it’s pretty lame but were very excited to be spending the last night of our long weekend there and all set ...
Drive the Loop
Both relative fans of the tweenie pop books & movie Twilight, we decided to make the quick jaunt up the coast to Forks, where the book took place & the movies were supposedly filmed. What a disappointment ~ the starving girls who forgot the ...
Rialto Beach & Hole in the Wall, WA
Rialto Beach is a rugged, pebbled beach loaded with "serious" driftwood—huge logs some over six feet in diameter. "Hole in the Wall" is reached by a 1.5-mile walk, which is best during low tide. There are impressive headland rock formations ...
The countdown begins.....
Hi Everybody! Less than a month before my great adventure begins! (29 days to be exact!) I have decided to write this blog while I am abroad as a way to share my adventures and also as a way for me to document my journey. If you would like, ...
Washington, the Evergreen State
... Mikrowelle (!) und Kühlschrank. Es gibt sogar einen kleinen beheizten Pool. Wir werden zwei Nächte hier verbringen. Forks ist übrigens nicht nur Ausgangsbasis zur Erkundung des Nationalparks, sondern seit kurzem auch "Twilight City", d.h. die ...
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