We visited Mt.Rainier National Park today. Good idea. There is nothing like old growth forest. The smell took me back to childhood. A few blocks from the house in Seattle where I lived from age 5 to 12 was a completely protected and undeveloped park called Schmitz park. My mother took us there on a regular basis during the summer and I occasiona...

Tacoma by car and foot then to Seattle by ferry. By foot, three drinks at rotating restaurant top of Space Needle. Awesome views of Mt. Olympus, Rainier, not Baker and Puget Sound. Slept in car three miles N of Enumclaw.