Monday, October 10, 2011

Into the Great Unknown - The Pacific Northwest

Well I've decided that since I have a split travel personality, I will need to split my travel into two separate blogs.  Travels With Mel: Disney Edition which will cover all things Disney (I know Captain Obvious here!) and Travels With Mel will cover all other travel that I do and see.  Both will include recommendations and opinions and reviews but definitely need to differentiate between the two.

So now that I have gotten the preliminaries out of the way....the next trip that I have planned is a trip to Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington.  I am excited about this trip for many reasons but the biggest one is that I will check two states off of my list on this trip.  I am down to 6 states left to have traveled to all 50 and this will take a chunk out of that list!  Since I've never been to either of these places before, it will all be new to me and I'm going to take you along with me as we discover the Pacific Northwest.

If any of you know me or have read my previous posts, you know that our method of travel is to target a specific area and do everything that you can possibly do and see everything you can possibly see within driving distance of the target! This is the "Have rental car...will travel" theory! This usually creates some wild and crazy trips and lots of adventures along the way but no one can say that we don't make the most of our travel time!  So having established the rules of travel here is our itinerary for our Pacific Northwest Adventure:

Friday Oct. 14:  Flight to Seattle, Washington, Get rental car and drive to Portland, Oregon

Saturday Oct. 15: Drive from Portland to Mount Hood/Gorge Area, drive back to Portland for dinner
at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse (We like to eat and are making a game out of getting to all the
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse locations so this HAS to be in the itinerary!)

Sunday Oct. 16:   Drive from Portland to Mt. Rainier National Park.

Monday Oct. 17:  Drive to Cascades National Park in Northern Washington

Tuesday Oct. 18: Visit Seattle area attractions, shopping, dinner at the Space Needle Restaurant.

Weds Oct. 19:  Return flight

This again is a rather adventurous schedule given that all of these attractions could easily take a few days on their own and are quite a distance apart.  If there's one thing that I've learned in traveling to the Western US it's that things are very far apart and take several hours to get from one to the other!  However, the challenge of seeing lots of things in a short period of time is what keeps our interest piqued!

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