West Coast to West Yellowstone With Kids

Our family is no stranger to camping as during the summer we spend more weekends in our travel trailer than we do at home. Most of these trips are within two hours of home but we always do one week in Oliver which is 4 hours away and then another week to a far off land. The past two years the far off land has been the Oregon coast which is still a reasonably short trip; Astoria was about 6 hours away and the central Oregon coast was 8 hours. So, when we decided to go to Yellowstone which was 1450km away I was a little worried about how the kids would react to being in the car that long but I think we planned it perfectly...This is the longest post ever, for random thoughts, what we would have done differently, regrets, etc. just scroll to the bottom and pictures are scattered through out...

Random Pictures From Summer 2016...So Far

These are some of the pictures we have taken so far this summer. Most of them are from Oliver and Sheridan Lake with the odd one from May long weekend in La Conner. Enjoy the pictures. Peace Out!

Spring Break 2016

Just a few pictures from spring break. The falls are the lower and middle falls of Wallace Falls which is within Wallace Falls State Park in Washington. It was a pretty easy hike and we would have liked to have carried on to the upper falls but a certain 9 year old girl was not having any of that. The other photos are of the park at Seattle Centre as we went to the Pacific Science Centre in Seattle for a day also.

New Years 2015 - or is it 2016?

This past New Years we were lucky enough to be invited to a friends cabin. There cabin was at Sheridan Lake which is in the southern Caribou district of B.C. For my Australian family that is about 4.5 hours north east of Chilliwack. Having on been as far North as Cache Creek I assumed the area would look like that, kind of sparse for trees and a little desert like. Also, since Kim used to live in Quesnel I pictured a stinky area as she said it always smells of the saw mills; boy was I wrong. The area was full of trees at at just under 1200 meters above sea level it was also super cold. The whole area was picture perfect and just so much fun to sit and look at the scenery. I cannot describe how awesome the area was. As someone who has spent the majority of their life on the coast and only spent "holiday time" in the interior during the summer I had no idea how awesome winter can be in B.C. when a chair lift is not present. Our gracious hosts had built an ice rink on the lake by plowing away the snow and it was something else to see the kids ice skating outside on a lake - the whole thing was very Canadian and that was perfect by us. I got to go ice fishing for the first time and I suck at that as much as I do at normal fishing - i.e. I didn't catch anything - but sitting on a lake surrounded by the scenery is what it was all about.