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Speeding ticket & Mount Rainier

Thursday, 5.7. Sun! We have breakfast and already need a baggage cart for the "little" luggage! My big bag now weighs 25 kilos, the small one 15... We head north, passing a...

Washington: off the beaten path: Kelso - Ape Caves - Yale Lake

Thursday 21.06. Kelso (WAS) – Yale Lake – Woodland The breakfast at the Best Western Hotel in Kelso (WAS) is fantastic. We eat English muffins with egg and yogurt. Well...

Long Beach (WAS) & Mount St. Helens (OR)

Wednesday 20.06. Lake Quinault - Mount St. Helens - Kelso (332 miles) The sun is shining! Unbelievable! At 8:30 a.m., we get in the car and drive from Amanda Park towards the...

Entry into the USA + meet & greet with Philipp Grubauer

Instead of the alarm clock, we were woken up today by a stupid constant beeping from the street. I have no idea what that was, but it was loud, extremely annoying and went off...

Vulkan No. 3 - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument / Washington

After our fantastic experience in Yellowstone National Park, which was formed by a large volcano, as well as Mount Rainier, also a volcano, we were curious about another...

Space Needle

Yesterday it was time to say goodbye to Ilwaco and head to our final destination. But first, we made a stop at Cape Disappointment. We were looking for the lighthouse, which is...

We're coming home - It's Christmas Seattle

So dear ones, we've been back home for almost a week now. We had a nice but also stressful week in Seattle and the surrounding area. The trip to the Pacific and the nice...

On the road again - The Needle in Seattle and Mount Rainier in Washington

From Everett and the motel with the most questionable guests, who fired off firecrackers at night (we hope they were firecrackers and not cartridges...) in the neighborhood and...

Verloren in Seattle - nicht mehr!

Ein Tagesausflug nach Seattle, WA

Road trip with ocean view

On the route from San Francisco to Seattle, we have planned 4 overnight stays. Today is the last evening before our final stop in the USA.

Seattle, a story of failures and sin (15.-20.10.18)

The abundance of greenery in and around Seattle justifies the nickname 'Emerald City'. At the same time, it is also a response to the 'Evergreen State' Washington. In 1851, the...

Carkeek Park

We actually wanted to go to the children's museum today, but we were too late. The schoolwork still takes a lot of time and energy (it’s not progressing, a miserable struggle)....

Today the fish fly low

Since we are flying again in two days, Jeani offered to drive us to Seattle again. First we went to the old Central Market and then briefly to downtown. The highlight of the...

Flight to Seattle and arrival

My flight took off today, on November 2, with a delay of about 15 minutes and after 10 1/2 hours of flight time, we landed in Seattle on time. Upon arrival on US soil, various...

2nd day in Seattle (Finally with pictures :-D)

The United States are really good to us, we have the most beautiful sunshine again today and pleasant 20 degrees Celsius. This time we have breakfast in our accommodation. There...

Burien, Seattle: What a day! Had an incredible lucky streak despite the bad weather.

9.4. So the weather hasn't improved. Still rain, rain, rain and quite cold! But, we will remember this day for a long time! We left Seattle late, so we decided to drive...

Day 4: Rialto Beach, Hoh River, and Ruby Beach

On day 4, we drove on the #101 to the Pacific coast to Rialto Beach. The stony beach is known for its driftwood and the 'Hole in the Wall', which can be reached after...

Tag 1: Seattle

After 9 hours of flight, we landed in Seattle on time at 10:40 am. Our cover photo gives you a good overview of Seattle, with the skyline on the left and the historic harbor in...

<p>The drive from Seattle to <i>Mount Rainier</i> took longer than we thought. We were happy to still snatch a campsite, so we could take our time for the <i>Burrough Mountain</i> trail. It’s a beautiful hike, going through alpine meadows first. Then, the vegetation recedes and you’re in a barren volcanic landscape, walking over basalt, ashes and pumice from former eruptions. Plus, there’s always the intimidating, huge Mt Rainier volcano in front of you. The summit was carefully hidden by clouds almost the whole time. That made it even more intimidating and mysterious because we could only imagine how high it really is. While hiking to the third peak of Burrough Mountain, we got closer and closer to Mt Rainier, until we could see the deep, gaping crevasses of the <i>Winthrop Glacier</i>. Then, we got lucky and the sky cleared up, finally revealing the enormous, pyramid-shaped Mt Rainier, covered in ice and snow from the glaciers.</p><p>On our way back, we encountered some fearless golden-mantled ground squirrels. They already stole a bag of peanuts from a woman picnicking. As I held out my bare hand, they even started nibbling my fingers until they realized it’s nothing edible. As another man unpacked his snacks, they scrambled upon him and tried to get into the bag. But still, they were so cute! As the dusk set in and only a few tourists were still on the trail, we could even see some marmots. I got very close (ca. 1,5 m) to a big one calmly chowing some plants.</p><p>On the second day in Mt Rainier National Park, we hiked the <i>Skyline Trail Loop</i>. It starts in <i>Paradise</i>, which lives up to its name with beautiful alpine meadows, flowers blossoming in a variety of colours and small creeks coming from the glacier. When we got higher, we found ourselves walking on volcanic rock like basalt again. From <i>Panorama Point</i>, we could not only admire Mt Rainier but also the other impressive volcanoes nearby: <i>Mount Adams</i> and <i>Mount St. Helens</i>, our next stop.</p><p><a href='https://drive.google.com/file/d/12gX-gcSAGGOQxF70YsiECPJGHsVDso-8/view?usp=drivesdk'>Click to watch marmot video</a></p>

Cute golden-mantled ground squirrel nibbling on a stolen nut

Winthrop

8.9. In the morning we take a long shower. Since the lady at the reception couldn't read my chicken scratch, we have to stop by again. When I try to pay with my credit card, it...

Seattle - Day 1 in America

The train journey and...

Mt St Helens Trip // USA

School trip to Washington State May 2018

The MoPOP and the Space Needle

The MoPOP and Space Needle

North Cascades National Park / Washington

The stops of the last few days were merely to split the journey to Seattle into a few days. It would not have been possible to go straight from Yellowstone NP to Seattle. With...

Horn in the USA!

On August 20th, we took the bus from Squamish via Vancouver to Seattle. We were excited to travel to the USA, but also a little nervous as it isn’t guaranteed that you’re...

La Push and Second Beach

13.9. A rabbit seems to have no fear and leisurely eats grass while we brush our teeth. Amelia can approach it to within 1m without it reacting. What an encounter!! Quickly...

29/10/2019 - Roy → Seattle / USA → Vancouver / Canada (315 Kilometers)

In the morning we were woken up by the rising sun and had a view of snow-capped Mount Rainier right from the bed. At 4,392 meters, it is the highest peak in the US state of...

2nd Day (The Dalles - Ellensburg)

I wake up twice during the night, but at least I manage to fall back asleep until 6 o'clock. That's enough to feel somewhat fit and finally do what I have planned: write down...