Mia’s birthday falls quite conveniently on or around Memorial Day. We’ve made it an annual tradition to go away for this holiday weekend and this year was no exception. We’d made plans to hook up with the San Francisco family, we had not seen them in over 2 years since moving out here. Ironic since…
Category: Hikes
Ramona Falls Hike
The original plan for today had actually been to hike Dog Mountain in The Gorge, but for whatever reason we weren’t really feeling that one when we woke up this morning. So after breakfast and perusing some of our hiking books, we opted for Ramona Falls off of Lolo Pass. It was the right decision…
Methow Valley
For the President’s Day Weekend Mia and I both took Friday and Tuesday off from work and made the looooonnnnggg trip up to the Methow Valley in Washington. We stayed in Mazama just 12 miles outside of Winthrop. It’s a 7-ish hour drive from the PDX area up to Winthrop. This was one of the…
Hello 2015
Mia and I welcomed 2015 in glorious fashion. I was in bed by 9:45 and asleep by 10:15! In other words it was pretty quiet. I had been up since 5AM, worked a full day and was pretty pooped out by the time 9pm hit. We both pretty much loafed around on Thursday, watched some…
Colors and some more dog walking
Mia and her friend Susan did the ColorVibe Portland 5K yesterday at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Not really a “race”, more of a social event. Susan met us at our place and I walked over with both of them and Codi. I was there for moral support and to get “The Dog” out for a…
Wilson River Trail
Saturday began as a cloudy, drizzle filled morning, but the forecast was for clearing and sunshine, with cool Fall temps. Mia and I wanted to get Codi back out into the woods again, so we took him on the quick jaunt out to the Tillamook Forest Center to hike part of the Wilson River Trail….
ON & OFF RHODES 