Horton's Travels

Two People, One Big Adventure, and of course…Horton!

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October 6 – 9, 2011 Eyes were locked. Beady and black vs round and wide. “Why Hello there” said Morton to us in Horton, “I’ll just help myself to some food….” <scrreeeeach> rewind… let me doodooaloo doodooaloo Waynes World it back to the start. It is the middle of the night and Brent wakes up [...]

October 2 – 6, 2011 Cougars in the area! No, not the dating kind altho we did see a fantastically funny commercial while watching tv for a dating site in Canada for them. A big ole cougar had been spotted at the park and so when B ventured out at 11 PM to check out [...]

September 29 – October 2, 2011 We rolled into Manchester State Park closing in on sunset. After setting up easily (yaaay for level spots) we grabbed a beer and took a stroll. While moseying around we were lucky to catch Mt Rainier painted pink (every day thereafter we didn’t see its top or much of [...]

September 29, 2011 So we knew our next stay was going to be somewhere that we could take a day trip into Seattle.  Perused the map and available state parks, ferry routes, and after deciding we might want to take a quick day trip out to see Mt Rainier, we decided driving through Seattle would [...]

September 24 – 29, 2011 After the long drive we had to get to Birch Bay from Jasper, we were happy that it was a short trip over to Deception Pass (only about 65 miles.) There was a motorcycle fest going on that day in Anacortes so while there were lots of bikes on the [...]

September 21 – 24, 2011 From Jasper to Birch Bay State Park in WA is ~800km / ~500 miles. After looking at the map saw a couple spots that we could have a layover, but B had other ideas. He was like the energizer bunny. He kept driving and driving; even ate his lunch while [...]