San Francisco is one of our favorite cities on the planet, full stop. If you’ve spent any time in this corner of the internet, you’ll probably know that we met in San Francisco, went on our first date in San Francisco (to a Giants game), we moved in together in San Francisco, and we got…
Over the past few years, we’ve spent a fair amount of time ambling up and down Highway 395, which runs from Los Angeles on the south end up through the Eastern Sierra and Lake Tahoe, all the way up to Oregon, and it has quickly become one of our favorite places on earth (especially in…
This is a hike that we were very, very close to not doing on a rainy morning in Bend that came 48 hours after a bout of food poisoning that had Matt down for the count. We were sitting at the gas station pumping gas and decided we would drive out to Sisters (which was…
A roaring creek (that turns into a babbling brook). An abundance of wildflowers. Jaw-dropping views of the South Sister and Broken Top. Crystal clear blue-green lakes. As Alysha said during this hike, “I think this is heaven for me.” Take all of those aspects we mentioned in the first paragraph and package them into a…
The San Juan Islands are one of the more unique places in the Pacific Northwest, if not the entire country. There are only a few places in the world that we can think of where a series of islands are connected by ferries loaded up with cars that serve as an extension of the highway…
If you’re looking for a taste of the granite and crystal clear water that is a hallmark of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness that you can reasonably get to in a day (while we love the hike to Colchuck, it’s not exactly accessible from Seattle), we have a trail for you! The Rachel Lake Trail (and…