Seattle is a beautiful city, full of things to do, see, and eat no matter what you’re into. I know, because I lived in the Seattle area for almost 20 years from elementary school to after college, and spent a large part of that time exploring all corners of the city. One of the best…
We have been lucky to call Northern California home for over a decade at this point (update for 2024: we now live in Oregon, but still make the journey down to Northern California to visit family regularly!). At the time of writing, Alysha had spent her whole life here, minus four years in college, and…
We love Portland for many reasons. The innovation in the food and drink scene is almost unrivaled (we’ll get into why we think that is below). Within 90 minutes, you can be either on the Pacific Ocean or in the mountains (we’re mountain people, but we do love the Oregon Coast). The city is compact…
Of the 13 National Parks we visited in 2020 on our USA road trip, including the Mighty 5 in Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park was our favorite. Not top five. Not even the top three. Our favorite. It’s a relatively small park that is packed full of super unique sights and landscapes thanks to the…
We loved Moab, and think that it’s well worth spending four days exploring this adventure town, particularly as a part of a broader Utah National Parks road trip. Between the amazing diversity of landscape in Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, and some of the things to do in Moab outside of the national…
If you’ve spent any time at all in our little corner of the internet, you know that we’re big fans of both the Pacific Northwest AND Northern California, the two places we’ve called home together. The road trip we’re about to talk about – the drive between Seattle and San Francisco – takes you through…