September 7 Waterton to Glacier National Park

Left waterton 9 or 10

Customs

Entered the park at St.Mary ranger station and saw both webcams

Drove over Going to the Sun Road. Stopped at a turnout for lunch. Took lots of pictures.

Arrived glacier lodge about 4 pm. Great cabin on the lake!

View from our room

Sept 8 Glacier Park

Warmish, calm, 55 degrees when we left the cabin at 11 am.

Drove up going to the sun road and back down. Overcast moved in but still warmish in the 60s.

Drove out past fish camp to where the paved road ends.  We think the webcam for apgar overlook was in the hills to our south.

Came back hung out around camp. Found the two Apgar village webcams.  Still warmish and calm. People kayaking g on a calm lake in shorts ant t shirts.

Went to dinner at Eddies around 6. Looking out the window at 7 we could see the wind had picked up.   Came out and there was a stiff cold wind. Clouds mostly blew away. 2 ft waves breaking on the lake shore.

Beautiful sunset.

Expecting snow in the high country tonight or tomorrow.

September 6 Waterton Park

Really busy day.. This will be a long post!

Boat cruise to goat haunt

Found the webcam at goat haunt

Waterton webcam and ugly building

Webcam link

Tea at Prince of Wales

Drove to Red Rock Canyon

Drove to Abayan road to Cranston lake

Sept 5 Cranbrook to Waterton Park, Alberta

We arrived in Waterton, worried about finding a place to stay, since we had had a hard time in Cranbrook, but found a really nice place right on the lake and across from the Prince of Wales hotel.  Love looking at historic hotels, but they are not always comfortable.

View of Prince of Wales from our room - we will go there for Tea tomorrow.

Had a lovely meal at the restaurant adjoining our hotel, the http://www.bayshoreinn.com , tried local brewery....  Big rock scottish red

Sept 4 Richland to Spokane to Cranbrook, BC

Spokane has a great riverfront park, with a giant red wagon and a goat that really sucks... Trash!

You push a button on the brick wall and a vacuum cleaner starts, then you put a piece of paper by the goat's mouth and it gets sucked into a waste receptacle.

Cranbrook BC kinda sucked... Not sure why but we just didn't like it.

September 3 2014 - Klamath Falls to Richland, Washington

On the road at 9:10

Finally made it to Deschutes Brewery Pub in downtown Bend at 12:15, after getting lost (again) and going to the brewery first.   

Food and beer were just as good as last time.

Berry cobbler...mmmmm

September 2 2014 Home to Klamath Falls

Passed through Redding and took a quick look at the Sundial Bridge, but it was too hot to get out of the car.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial_Bridge_at_Turtle_Bay

It was very smoky due to a fire in the Klamath forest.  The whole north valley had nasty air.

We have a favorite webcam at Mt. Shasta, but no desire to go looking for it, so we pulled  this photo from the web the next day

For a current view, check out this link The webcam at Shasta

Had a nice dinner at the Thai Orchid in Klamath Falls, a good night at HIE.

May 1 Troutdale to Astoria to Roseburg, Oregon

The webcam sits on top of the pole.

Sometimes it points to the estuary.

Sometimes it points upstream.

Sometimes it shows a view of the tower

Here is a link to the current view from the webcam.  It seems to be down quite a lot.  mAstoria Webpage

May 3 Fort Bragg to Fort Ross and home

I Had always wanted to see Fort Ross, wow! So very cool!

July 7 San Jose to North Lake Tahoe

Left home around 11:30, two brief stops and we arrived at the Franciscan at 3:45. Stayed in unit 10.

It's a cute 1 bedroom place with the lake right outside

Bit the.studioss.are.w wn better since.you

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May 2 Roseburg to Tillamook to Fort Bragg

Drove to Tillamook, OK we've been there a few times, so we NEVER need to go there again! Holy Disneyland, Batman!  Bought a little cheese, and beat a hasty retreat!

On to Fort Bragg, dinner at North Coast Brewery, and of course some great beer!

And pie for dessert

Another cool Holiday Inn Express with a view overlooking the Hare Creek and a glimpse of the Pacific Ocean.

April 30 Bend to Timberline

Passed along behind the Cascades, Mt Bachelor, Mt Jefferson to Mt Hood.

Had a lovely buffet lunch at Timberline.

Upstairs bar-

Dining room at Timberline

Amazing hand cranked sausage slicer.

Found a webcam-

April 29 Klamath Falls to Crater Lake to Bend

Drove to Crater Lake.  It was surrounded by snow, only one road in from the south.  And when we got there, there was so much snow that you could only see the lake from the third floor of the visitor center or by walking up a snow hill.

There were amazing icicles on the building!

We are not sure we saw the webcam on that building.... but it must have been in the eaves.

We stopped at Steel Visitor Station to check on road conditions.  Located another webcam and talked to the ranger and another visitor. They heartily suggested making Bend the destination of the day because "there are six brew pubs there" and one of them is Deschutes, maker of Obsidian Stout, one of Aric's very favorite brews.  YES! no more sizzler for us!

The Closed Entry Station!

Outbound from Crater Lake, stopped to take a picture of the webcam at the entry station.  One of the many nice things about traveling the shoulder season, there were so few services available that they were not even charging an entry fee that week.

Dinner and beer at Deschutes lived up to our expectations and then... piece de non-resistance - berry pie! Boysenberry with a few blueberries thrown in for good measure.  WOW. 

April 28 Calistoga to Lassen to Klamath Falls

Started the day slowly... Left Indian Springs around 11 after hanging out on the porch enjoying the day.

We found Mt. Lassen! We found our first webcam! 

Ok what's the story on the webcams?   We have a collection of scenic webcams bookmarked, and we look at them every morning.  There are two at Lassen Park, but due to the snow, and our lack of time, we only got to the lower one this time.

The webcam is in a tree

If you want to see the current view from the actual webcam, click here... Manzanita Lake webcam.

It took a lot of hunting to find this webcam, since we thought it was in a cute little building.... but it turned out to be up in a tree.


More Mt. Lassen Info: Mt. Lassen Webcam page

A long drive to Klamath Falls and dinner at Sizzler, where we fell for the "all you can eat salad bar" which included soup, fried chicken, biscuits, gravy, taco bar and dessert plus we had "Senior" entrees, salmon for me and fried shrimp for Aric. Oh yeah, a bottle of cheap wine (which we saved half for later because it was so.... umm.. well we saved it for later.)  Ugh!  Not the best choice, but it was right in the parking lot and easy to stagger back to our room.

April 27 San Jose to Calistoga

Day 1   Mud Bath and Brew Pub

Left home fairly late... 11:45.   A short drive to Calistoga where I had a mud bath at Indian Springs.

Planned to go to the pool later....

We had a nice dinner with beer tasting at Calistoga Inn and Brewery.  The DeBockenAtor was my favorite and Aric, predictably, preferred the oatmeal stout (which was very creamy and good).

Had a berry tart for dessert.  It was OK.

Came home in a food induced haze and decided we would forgo the pool.

Had an early night.