In September 2019 (before that COVID crap) we headed west towards north of Seattle to join our children and their partners on a cruse to Alaska out of Seattle. But as always nothing is simple or straight forward. Attached you will find photos of the trip out, the cruse and back.
Our trip out was interesting to the point of visiting the Grand Canyon (southern rim). Checking out all of the different gorges with the different shade from the different centuries. By the time we slowly roamed around the canyons it started turning dusk. As we were heading out - all of a sudden the traffic stoped. OK now what’s up - what would cause the traffic to stop. As we creeped up we finally found out what? There were buffalo on both sides of the road just roaming around with their calves. What a beautiful site,
Once in the Seattle region we were able to enjoy the north west. But the real enjoyment was the pleasure of our children during a seven night cruise to Alaska. After spending four years in the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan and being on Lake Superior I didn’t see much difference.
After departing the great north west - we started heading to the central Northern Territory but we hadn’t made it out of the Rockies when we stopped through dead would and visited while bills grave site and Calamity Janes resting place. From there we ventured to the Geronimo monument and stayed around for the night illumination.
From here we headed further east along I-80 and headed thru the badlands - a lot of vast open lands.
The first pictures are to Whitby Island which is off he coast just north of Seattle. We took the ferry over and drove around. There is another way off which is north of where the kids live in Marysville, WA. One of the reasons for the drive back is because sometimes there are whales that travel under the bridge.
The next set of pictures are our departure from Seattle for our eight day cruse to Alaska and back.
Once we departed from the wet northwest - we headed east over the Rockies. Once in the area we were able to check out four places. The first will be of the Geronimo monument that we saw during day and then for the night illumination.
From here another of our visits was to a paleontology dig up in the Dakotas.
From here we headed through Deadwood and to Wild Bill and Calamity Janes Graves
After Dead Wood we headed through the Bad Lands on our way back to Florida via Keesler AFB so after these pictures I will finally be able to start working on the 2023 trip that we are already in.
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