Olympia, United States Travel Blogs

If It's Tuesday It Must Be Olympia
Aug 24, 2005 (45 photos)

... GRAND-KIDS to see them all. Me and the G-Kids! What a time we'd have! I've made slight headway -- Jeffrey and Matthew to Olympia, and Matthew to Helena, Bismarck and Pierre. (Pierre is the only one-syllabled state capital, by the way, "Peer" being the ...

Stranger days have arisen
Jul 10, 2009 (2 photos)

... for the next sixty days.  It's nothing more than a logistical nightmare as we shut down all of our resources here in Olympia, we are simultaneously scrambling to do our final prep work for a trip that will continue for a year. A year do you believe ...

Olympia And The Boeing Museum
Apr 27, 2008 (10 photos)

Here are some pics of our trip to the Boeing museum in Everett, Washington and also of Olympia in Washington at the start of our roadtrip.

Boxes and the storage unit
Jul 3, 2009 (2 photos)

Welcome to the wonderful world of MOVING. Stage 37 of our year-long traveling circus.  Stages 1-36 required perseverance and fortitude, but we prevailed.  We've started to move out of San Francisco Ave NE.  What a cute little house. ...

Life in a 15 x 5 foot cubical
Jul 15, 2009 (5 photos)

Mark: Actually these are pictures of our stuff in storage. see we couldn't fit any more if we wanted to.  I pity the fool who has to unload that. Yes, I am the fool in this senario.  Anyway.  It's all done and we are off to the Olympics

The last and the first day
Jul 15, 2009

Misty: It is hard to believe that it has come down to the last day in Olympia, WA and the first day of our adventure. There is no turning back now it is time to travel the world.  I'm going out in to the world with my own ideas of how this next year ...

Structure and Freedom
Jul 5, 2009

Another big purchase and choice taken care of today.  Tickets to Thailand and India.  We will be traveling to Thailand in and out of Bangkok.  In India we will fly into Mumbia and leave the country from Delhi.  The whole trip all ...

Tossed salad n scrambled eggs, were calling again
Sep 7, 2006 (9 photos)

Wed 6th Sept Sadly no moose. Crossed into Idaho. New for Brian, his 32rd state visited. Passing the big city of Spokane. It seemed rushed and busy on the highway after the wilds of Montana. Then onto flat endless empty rolling hillsides for about 250 ...

Outdoor parties and festivities
Jul 12, 2009

What a wonderful evening last night.  We had a great little going away party last  night hosted by Tony and Kelli at their beautiful home.  We had plenty of food and laughs, familiar faces and some great weather.  I have to thank Kelli ...

Mt. Rainier and Olympic National Parks
Sep 14, 2009 (3 photos)

Left Columbia Valley, waving good-bye to the orchards and vineyards, even a few fields planted with hops which reminded us of El Bolsón. Stopped at the public library in Yakima to check email, drove along Naches River and into Mt. Rainier National Park. ...

An honorable place
Feb 1, 1990

... British freighter as the children were roped up one by one in stormy seas, and her eventual relocation to the United States. Yes, I love Olympia. Even the name is honorable. Facts: Washington was the FORTY-SECOND state. Date: November 11, 1889 State ...

a whirlwind summer
Sep 30, 2007

... from Bay City, Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin with my parents and boyfriend (approximately 400 nautical miles) - 9 day roadtrip to Olympia, Washington via the Badlands, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, Missoula, MT, Walla Walla wineries, and finally Mt. ...

Back to Civilization
Sep 8, 2007

Miles Driven: 169.3 Average Speed: 37.1 Time in Car: 3:23:47 We awoke and were out of the camp in a hurry. Now that we had decided to get back to civilized life, we wanted to get there quickly.  No doubt we were also driven along by our own ...

Chez Cascadia
Aug 19, 2008 (4 photos)

... significantly more mundane fabrications these days (bear toilet paper dispensers?!?). Onward! Next stop: The Chez Cascadia hostel in West Olympia (capital of Washington). This place was clean and organized. It's run by Jonas who looked to be in his ...

Upward and Onward from Olympia
Dec 19, 2007 (7 photos)

... on I-5 and we headed south to Olympia. We were met along the way by our next host, Alan Mountjoy-Venning, a member of Olympia Friends Meeting. He told us about the history of bike/pedestrian paths in Olympia and led us to his community's wonderful co-op ...

End of another year
Oct 9, 2009 (3 photos)

... into the distance  he said fine and returned our passports. As border crossings go these days that was relatively easy. We then headed for Olympia, where our good friends Sam and Sig are storing our rig for us. It takes a fair bit of time to put the RV and ...

Olympic Peninsula
Jul 20, 2007 (36 photos)

... of the World's Largest Trees. I spent Friday night with another couchsurfer person, Kim at her home outside of Olympia. She's a couple years younger and getting ready to retire from the army. Kim and her boyfriend were really welcoming. Bill made ...

The plan!
Oct 1, 2008

... ;  Travel to Xian, to see the terracotta warriors      Explore Hong Kong December: travel back to the states. The exact details are still kind of rough, but I see no purpose of planning every detail when in all likely hood ...

The Begining is Near!
Oct 11, 2008

The beginning is near. I quit my job last Saturday and since then have been busy getting ready. I sold everything that I could and packed the rest. I am know sitting in a hollowed out version of a room that has housed me for the past 9 months, most of my ...

Olympia
Aug 23, 2007

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One of These Mornings I'm Goin' Away
Jul 9, 2009

    Tonight is my last night in Olympia for at least 73 days...I signed up for the IFCO/Pastors for Peace 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba, at the end of my Freshmen year at Evergreen State College.  I was Looking for a little ...

Let's do the numbers
Jan 3, 2009 (3 photos)

Amazing that it has been a month since we returned from our great bicycle adventure. The time has rushed by in a blur of unpacking and visits and friends and family and holidays and ....whew! As we have been travelling, and then subsequently when ...

Stop 1
Jun 29, 2008

Miles: 280 Weather: HOT! As planned (always a good thing on day one),  we departed at 0900.  The weather was warm and sunny.  The ride up I-5 started out  very well.  Not too long into the day it became unbearably hot.  ...

Olympia
Jun 23, 2006

coming soon....

First
Mar 9, 2006 (1 photos)

This is where we started.

Olympia, 2/10/08
Feb 10, 2008 (1 photos)

Made it to Olympia.

stop at Olympia for dinner
May 29, 2009

After 4 days in Seattle we started heading back to Portland. We made a short stop at Olympia to get dinner and walk around a bit. It seems like a cool little place. I should get back there sometime/

Preparation
Apr 9, 2008

Preparation ... Planning .....  Routing .... Months of planning and commiserating before we can leave. We will be spending a month of traveling on our Honda GL 1800 motorcycle pulling our Aspen camp trailer going from West Coast to the East ...

The Quote Board
Jan 5, 2009

In honour of the original quote board at the Casa, Bill and I kept a log of noteworhty quotes along the way. With over 5000 km and 4 months to think and reflect and talk, we certainly came up with some very deep and meaningful comments. "Do you want ...

Olympia Lake Fair
Jul 20, 2009 (14 photos)

OLYMPIA LAKE FAIR I had the opportunity to help at the Olympia Lake Fair fireworks show in June. Fireworks by Entertainment Fireworks Set up went without a hitch so there was plenty of time to enjoy the wildlife on the lake waiting for it to get dark. I ...