Hotel Rio Vista Winthrop

... from Wisconsin. Katie and I went golfing and had a treat with the deer watching us.

I think it's interesting I go to these beautiful places in the wilderness only to go to a man made golf course. Well, it's all a good. I'm very grateful I can golf at all :)

... houses ;) The North Cascades highway was build in the early seventies. You can see that it was build with modern tourism in mind. It's one of the most beautiful roads trough one of the most snowiest places in the States. Even now, the end of august, some snow was still not melted. The highway is mostly closed from November to April btw because of the snow. I listened to some rangers in the ...

Thursday 14th August We have decided to stay exactly where we are today and tonight as we are now the only ones here. The other family left and we pinched there spot which is RIGHT by the water and the site we are parked on is huge! It is very hot but the water is very cold!! We are still swimming though as it looks so delicious! Holly and Zach have been panning for gold all morning and Steve reckons that it would really make his ...

... actually having a positive impact on water high up by trapping some of it higher up in the mountains. Holly even got to touch one of them! One of the employees there, Chris - hi Chris! gave us directions to camp up in the forest 18 miles up the road so we went up and found the loveliest campsite by the river with a sandy little beach for swimming. There was only 1 other family camping there with us overnight.

... State Park because it has a little lake for us to swim in. Ahhhhhh.....lovely! Hot air and cool water.....nothing better! The nearest town is Winthrop that, as you can see from the pictures is a reconstructed version of an old Western towne. Very quaint and full of fun.

... 10 miles. the first portion of the day was a gradual descent into a cute little town western-themed town called winthrop. dan, julie, brad, and i pulled in there, and after a quick shop at the local bike shop, we settled in for snack time. there was a combined hot dog/ice cream/mini golf place just at the intersection of wa-20 and the main street where he hung out for an hour and a half. brad and julie were riding sweep (meaning they ...

... quickly because it also involved an altitude loss of close to 2,000 of those hard-earned feet. with the freewheel (the ratchet in the rear wheel that allows the wheel to spin freely of the chain) whizzing at an insanely high pitch and my speedometer approaching 40 mph, i tore through those miles in about 30 minutes. since time flies when you're having fun (or maybe due to some loophole in special relativity, when you're flying too), i would have ...

... throughout this trip. Django (and for some of the time, Deirdre) was sleeping in the car so he's not in the pictures. The Lodge is beautiful, and I would recommend it if you're looking for a serene vacation spot. We had lunch in the Lodge's casual restaurant - which seems to be an Italian restaurant - and it was delicious. Lots of pictures. For ...

... Shiloh comes closer to look Jay throws a rock in the water and splashes him. This resulted in an interesting interpretation on Shiloh's part, where he's not nearly as good aiming the rock, where the rock landed on Jay's leg more than once. I envision Shiloh's brother getting hit with a lot of rocks as a result of this game. As I stated, Uncle Jay loves DANGER and so he had to ...

... cheap and that it will be my main form of transportation. I have faith in humanity and feel like more often than not, people have good intentions. I've heard it over and over again that I shouldn't trust anybody. While I know that those people are only looking out for me and that that kind of advice could keep me out of a lot of trouble, I suppose it could get me into some trouble as well. Maybe a little conceitedly, I consider myself a good judge of character, so ...