A Couple More Things About St. Helens
So, I wanted to follow-up from my earlier post about Mt. St. Helens.
I went through my photo archive and found photos from that Pacific Northwest trip from 2004. I had forgotten what dramatic skies were out that day, and how the clouds hung on the mountain like it was creating them from its heat.
The trip there was tiring – we had been driving for a good part of the day and the destruction caused by the last major eruption in the early 1980s was on my mind wayy too much. It put me in a very somber mood when we first saw the mountain in its entirety and stopped to take it in.
St. Helens – First Glimpse from the Highway
Our honeymoon was what brought us to there, a side trip on a multi-day visit to many cities, relatives’ houses, and natural areas such as Olympic National Park, the Columbia River Valley, and there at St. Helens. We didn’t go to Hawaii, or Tahiti, or the Bahamas. We went to the Northwest. We went to see areas of the country we had not seen at all or otherwise had not explored in full.
The sense of adventure felt on our Honeymoon, being on the road on most days, set the stage for our marriage. OK, we’re not the world travelers we had hoped or (I) thought we would be, and adventure is rare but still occurring, very local in nature, and always appreciated by us both.
The Crater – Just Awe Inspiring
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The start of this new web site for me is a look back at so many great trips, and a spawner of a motivation growing again to be adventurous more often. Sometimes, it’s hard to remember these kind of things when life is blurring by. I am hoping to slow the blur and jump into the fray more often.
For my next post, I feel I need to delve into thoughts for our next planned trip, hopefully in late Summer of this year. New Philadelphia, OH to see a friend, driving across PA to see Fallingwater in Ohiopyle and then onwards toward Philly to see relatives on one full day and the City on another full day, the on to DC to finally see our Capitol and finish off the trip there. Time to get those plane tickets!
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