So you want to go on a Road Trip, but where to start you ask?!?! Expert Jacq here to the rescue. Let me share my tips, secrets, and musts on packing, preparing, and surviving a successful road trip. I’ve been on quite a few road trips. I learned a lot about road trips as a kid when every weekend my mom and I would load up the car and travel all over the Midwest to my gymnastics meets. Then I…
Your ulminate guide to spending the day exploring the magestic Niagara Falls!
Can’t stop…won’t stop…chasing those darn waterfalls! On any visit to Yosemite National Park this is a must see, fan favorite, very popular, crowded attraction. Don’t miss out on seeing Yosemite Falls. Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in the park offering you an upper and lower waterfall to view. The falls reach a height of 2,425 ft. The best time to view Yosemite Falls is in the spring when most of the snow is melting. And get this….sometimes…in the summer,…
Agrarian Ales on the Oregon brewery bucket list! Down on the farm….the farm that makes it’s own beer. Honestly does it get better than this?!? I’ll go ahead and answer that question….Yup, yes it does, it actually gets way better! Don’t believe me?!?! Read on! Agrarian definition: relating to cultivated land or cultivation of land. Add that to beer and you get…. Agrarian Ales We got word of this farm-to-table Brewery from the website Travel Oregon. We’ve been using the site…
We did it! Hip Hip Hooray! Check another item off the good ol bucket list. We traveled up Hwy 101 all the way through Oregon into the state on Washington. We were probably in Washington for a total of 15-20 minutes. We simply wanted that picture proof that we had made it entirely up the coast of Oregon. All 363 miles. There was lots of smiling and giggling as we took these photos. I always get emotion when a trip…
Lincoln City is famous for their glass floats, and every year from mid October to Memorial Day float fairies flock to the beach daily to hide glass floats for beach goers to find and take home for a souvenir. This is my sad story on how I came, I saw, and well went home empty handed. No glass float pour moi! The three of us..and Lemon scoured the rough beach conditions for over an hour hoping to locate a glass…
So we’ve been staying in Newport, Oregon and this town is exactly what I felt a coastal Oregon town was going to look like. This is now my fav town, thus far…(I feel like I say that every day now!!) Newport has a historical bayfront district with shops, entertainment, and home to the loudest seal lions I have ever heard and seen! Lemon was very curious and scared of these loudmouths. It was fun to watch them barking at eachother…
I have been so impressed with the state park system here in Oregon. Everything is so easy to understand, so clean, and so beautiful. It’s an outstanding park system offering amazing experiences. The Heceta Head Lighthouse exceeded my expectations. I was not expecting to have park employees at the lighthouse ready to answer any question and take guests on guided tours. I also wasn’t expecting such an interactive tour and visit. We spent hours exploring the lighthouse and the grounds around it….
Bandon makes me feel like I’ve stepped into a New England seaside town, they’ve even got the chowda to seal the deal. Yum Yum Yummy! Lot and lots of chowder. So much that it was hard to decide where we should eat, but Tony’s Crab Shack seemed to be the busiest on the boardwalk so we quickly decided this was our place for a seafood treat. I tried the New England style Clam Chowder and the Bandon’s Famous Crab Sandwich….
On the way out of Gold Beach we hit up a local favorite Otter Point. There are two popular hiking trails located here..one takes you down to the beach while the other takes you out onto the rock formations above! It is rather easy to miss this amazing hike if you didn’t know it existed. When you’re leaving Gold Beach right after you pass over the Rogue River Bridge you want to take the road to the left which with…