A decade just flashed by. However, my saved digital photographs help me to remember the special holiday that Shirley and I enjoyed in 2014.
We flew to Vancouver from Manchester. After three nights that included a trip up to Whistler, we took a ferry to Vancouver Island where we stayed in the capital - Victoria for four nights. Next we took another ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Angeles in Washington State. There we picked up another hire car and after nights in Ocean Shores and Olympia, we drove down to Portland, Oregon before heading east along The Columbia River then back north to Seattle via Goldendale and Ellensburg. After three nights in the suburbs of Seattle, we returned to Port Angeles and the ferry back to Vancouver Island before flying home.
It was an itinerary that I had planned carefully myself and as on other occasions, it was very satisfying to witness everything coming together nicely with no significant hiccups. From my photo files I have picked six pictures to share with you from our Pacific North West holiday. A decade ago.
You picked a beautiful area to tour. Come back for another tour because there's more.
ReplyDeleteThe Pacific Northwest is one of my favorite spots in this country.
ReplyDeleteLooks like y'all had a whirlwind fun trip,
A nice choice of photos, especially the the 'fixer upper' homes. At least the first kind of has a roof.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this. I think in my next life I would like to be a traveller.
ReplyDeleteTime is weird like that, isn‘t it - sometimes events from 10 years ago seem like only recently, while at other times something that happened a few years back feels like it was in another life.
ReplyDeleteHow curious to come across a fake Stonehenge!
A great adventure in a very pretty part of the world.
ReplyDeleteVancouver Island is beautiful, our son and his family live there and we were lucky to visit there in 2019, they are coming over here in a month's time to visit us.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to any of those places and was surprised to read that there is a place called "Ellensburg"! I wonder what led you to plan the trip to all of those places, Neil.
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ReplyDeleteYou've been places on my continent that I have not.
Time flies! That fake Stonehenge is weird. Does it have a purpose -- or is the purpose mysterious, like the original Stonehenge? That top sculpture is somewhat horrifying.
ReplyDeleteI live just south of Portland and have been to all the locals pictured. So happy you experienced such a nice trip to the USA.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a lovely visit to my neck of the woods. :)
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