Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Travel Stories. Within these pages, you can read selected stories and musings about our waterfall-themed adventures in the Pacific Northwest. Hopefully, you'll find these stories entertaining and educational. Perhaps you might get a good laugh at our expense, or you might find some nuggets that you can apply to your own travels.
Thumb through the travel stories below. They are arranged chronologically with the most recent escapade at the top. Enjoy :)
 One and Only: And in this case, we saw a convergence of glaciers unlike we had ever seen before. We had seen places like the Perito Moreno Glacier, the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers, the Icelandic Glaciers including Skaftafellsjokull and the lagoon at Jokulsarlon, and the Norwegian Glaciers including Briksdalsbreen and Nigardsbreen. Yet the beauty of this place and its more-or-less intact ecosystem could easily move anyone appreciative of its majesty and grandeur to tears. In our case, it lifted our spirits and made it seem like the two days of sea-sickness-inducing rocking along with being prisoners on the ship was worth the trouble... [read more]
 Welcome to Paradise: It was at this point that I gave serious thought to turning back rather than take the risk, but I knew that I might regret never seeing the waterfall the way it should be seen after having gone this far. It was one of those situations where I knew how easily I could be another statistic taking a risk for that better photo. This year saw many deaths over Yosemite's waterfalls, and I definitely didn't want to be in that category here... [read more]
 The Twilight Zone: By about 5:30pm, we arrived at the Hilton in downtown Seattle, but there was a sign that caused Julie to fret in disbelief as the Alamo desk closed at 4pm! The town car driver had to tend to another call so we couldn't go back to the airport immediately with him. And so we were stuck at the Hilton with an increasingly fussy baby (she didn't have a good rest and she was not comfortable with the unfamiliar surroundings and people) and time running out on our errands while we were trying to figure out what to do... [read more]
 Dead Park: Sure enough, the clouds looking to the west looked menacing and even the winds remained as fierce as they were yesterday. As we drove west of St Mary and up the Going-to-the-Sun Road, it didn't take long before we went right into the weather where we were getting sporadic heavy rains with a mix of calm sprinkles and moderate showers in between. It was as if Mother Nature couldn't decide how miserable she wanted to make our day... [read more]
 Overcome By Events: "Is that a Manfrotto?" he asked. I nodded yes. So I helped him mate his camera to my Giotto tripod and he was happily snapping away with bracketed exposures and very slow shutter speeds in Shutter Priority mode. "You saved our marriage," he said. I chuckled. But when his wife came over, she said, "You should've seen him. He was pouting all trip long because his tripod was too big to fit in a carry-on and I wouldn't let him bring it." "See? I wasn't kidding about you saving our marriage," said the husband... [read more]
 On The Waterlogged Oregon Trail: We headed back down to the 126 and then headed north towards Koosah and Sahalie Falls. But as the road climbed, we could see the rain was turning into snow. We even passed by a couple of snow plows on the way up. Before we got deep into the white stuff (without chains), we decided to turn around and call it a defeat. So we wouldn't see neither Koosah nor Sahalie Falls as I had feared. I guess sometimes you can't fight Mother Nature, and this trip exemplified what happens if the trip is poorly planned and done at the last minute... [read more]
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