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From B-E-A-U-tiful Crater Lake we made our way up to Bend, OR and enjoyed the town who's reputation as being a really great city was definitely earned in our short time there. Because of the need for rest, laundry and tending to personal hygiene we, unfortunately, spent much of our time in the motel. We got to Mt. Rainier NP late on Friday after a long day of state highway driving enoying the variety of Oregon geography, from forest to flat fields to deserts to seeing Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams on the horizon. Arriving at a NP in July late on Friday evening without a campground reservation is stupid at best, particularly with our knowledge of pay camping learned so far. Oddly all the campgrounds we checked were FULL, hmmm, who'd expected that? Luckily the ... read more

On Friday we woke up to a splendid sunny morning and (once again) slowwwwwly got ourselves motivated and out the door. The fun was cleaning up a soiled and damp motel room from our previous nights camping, aka soaked tents, muddy shoes and general gear disarray. We were out the door with a spare 30 minutes before required check out time. Heading into Tillamook, Oregon, the sun was hidden behind the clouds typical of the NW, grey and cloudy but, come on, it's the NW coast. Cheese factory visits to both Blue Heron (a glorified but enjoyable gift shop) and Tillamook were enjoyed. Tillamook offered free icecream at the entry so I(Jamey) was simply blown away, the factory was plugging along and the free samples of cheese where worth the 5 minute wait, most amazing was ... read more

Here are some pictures for the last blog we did.... read more

After backpacking 6 miles into the desolate northwest corner of Glacier NP we found ourselves at Akokala Lake. It was beautiful and all was right with the world. Except for the mosquitos, i could have done without them. We woke at 5am and decided to come on down the mountain. A wonderful early morning hike, with no bears. From there we took the Going-to-the-Sun-Road thru Glacier and wow. Waterfalls, lakes, rivers, mountains, snow!! Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun road is truly something amazing, one of the places in this world where beauty can trump itself. We took pictures at the beginning, seeing towering rocky moutains painted with snow and waterfalls only to find these views getting grander and more astonishing to the point where you can't take enough pictures. Every turn and direction is awe inspiring and unbelievable, then ... read more

Jessica and Jamey's Alaskan Expedition Adventure has entered it's 3rd day, we've made it to Butte, MT, the tore-up road capitol of the country as far as we can see. We're leaving shortly for Glacier to see what the heck we're going to do up there until Friday morning, hopefully it will involve an overnight backpacking trip in the park. We'll have to wait and see. We've seen Casper Mountain, the Grand Tetons and Old Faithful, in Yellowstone NP, and we've only been on the road for 48 hours... read more