We love living in Portland for many reasons. The excellent food scene. The incredible green spaces within city limits. The easy access to jaw-dropping natural beauty. We firmly believe that Portland is one of the best cities in the country for a quick getaway (there’s a reason we chose it as our forever home after…
While we love our adopted home state of Oregon and places like Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park, if you ask us to name our favorite hiking destination in the Pacific Northwest (the west coast?), both of our minds go straight to North Cascades National Park (and the Mount Baker Wilderness, too). Why do we…
I’ve done many, many tours across Europe that never see the light of day in this corner of the internet, because I judged them to be not worth it. After all, our whole thing is making the most of your time and money with our detailed, thought-out itineraries, so it doesn’t make sense to include…
I distinctly remember being at a cafe in Paris (that shall remain unnamed) chatting with the barista a few years back about the coffee scene in Rome. I said something to the effect of “I probably won’t be drinking as much good coffee as I am here” and they guffawed and remarked that I would…
Mount Baker has become one of our favorite places in the Pacific Northwest. It has all of the alpine splendor that you find in places like Mount Rainier (which we also love – here are our guides!), but with a tiny fraction of the crowds because of its location tucked away along the Canadian border….
Here’s the short version of this entire guide: this hike is a nonstop showstopper for a relatively moderate effort, and immediately jumped into our list of favorite trails in the Northwest. If you can handle the distance and elevation, you should absolutely do it! In the car on the way down, we were talking about…