Over the years, we are frequently returning to the stunning Oregon coast for vacations. And we always have a great time and a lot of fun adventures. Though Southern Coast is closer to us, the northern part became our favorite recently. So here’s my list of the most epic places. Ecola State Park This park…
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Southern Oregon Coast Trip
Is there a region that is so beautiful it impresses you time after time? Southern Oregon Coast is exactly that place for me! Rugged cliffs covered with evergreens, hills covered with wildflowers, sunsets so stunning you cannot breathe, or foggy days that cover you like a soft blanket, waterfalls, and mountains, how can all of…
Kauai: Photographic Journey
How do you plan your trips, or do you plan them at all? My approach is: find a beautiful photo and plan the day around the location of it. I used the same approach when planned a Hawaiian trip. The only problem is that the whole of Kauai looks like a paradise. So the following…
The most beautiful redwood groves in Bay Area
Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Big Basin State Park currently is closed due to extensive fire damage. Please check web sites on the latest info. San Francisco Bay Area has a lot to offer when you think about hiking. Salt ponds of the bay, rolling…
Best Bay Area Parks to see wildflowers
Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex and SCU Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. If I ask you, what place would you think when I ask you where to find wildflowers in California, I doubt, I will hear “Bay Area.” But indeed…
US Canada Rocky Mountains National Parks Trip
oIf to think, there are only a few road trips that I would repeat without any changes a few more times. And this Canada-US Rocky Mountains road trip is one of them. What I will describe further is our July trip. Except for Glacier, we spent the only day in each region. However, it could…
Lassen National Park
If one day someone asks me what my two favorite California National Parks are, I would say Lassen and Redwoods. No, not Yosemite – that is amazing but always busy, sometimes way too busy to be enjoyable. Not Death Valley, which is though very likable but still is a desert that is deadly half of…
Early Fall in Grand Teton
I had a chance to spend several days in Grand Teton, my favorite national park, at the end of August, beginning of September. As always, I wished aspen would already start to turn yellow but no – they were summer green. But fall felt everywhere – brown grasses and bright yellow bushes were first signs…