Ah, San Francisco. The city where we met, moved in together, got married, and called home for nearly a decade. Unfortunately, our time in San Francisco came to an end when we decided to quit our jobs and travel the world for six months (which turned into two years of road tripping the western United…
Despite growing up in Washington State in the Seattle area, I (Matt here!) had never spent much time exploring the hiking trails in my home state until the past several years when Alysha completed her goal of turning me into “Mountain Matt”. If you had asked me a few years ago, I never would have…
Of the three main islands in the Puget Sound that make for a good day trip from Seattle – Bainbridge, Whidbey, and Vashon – Vashon is our favorite. As soon as you disembark from the ferry and set foot on the island, it feels like stepping into a completely different world. People are friendly and…
A peek behind the curtain: sitting down to write this guide was hard! We live in Portland, and had a long list of things we wanted to make sure to include to make sure you see the best that the city has to offer. How can we possibly fit everything we love about Portland into…
Arches was our first stop on our Utah National Parks road trip. We came from Denver, arriving in Moab in the fall after a summer of evergreen forests, alpine lakes, and mountainous terrain in Washington and Oregon. The area around Moab in southern Utah was a significant change of scenery. Standing under the towering Arches…
We fell in love with the state of Oregon when, in mid-2020, we decided to try out living in our minivan – Homer the Honda Odyssey – and spent six weeks on an incredible road trip that took us all over the state, from the Oregon Coast, to Bend and Crater Lake National Park, and,…