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Misadventures in Olympic National Park – Part Deux

BySusan Stephens

Old habits die hard, to coin a familiar phrase. What that means is, as much as I talk about taking things slowly when you are traveling, I didn’t seem to want to listen to that inner voice this time. As with my first Olympic National Forest trip, I tried to jam pack as much as…

Hurricane Ridge State Park
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The Unbridled Beauty of Deception Pass and the Olympic Peninsula

BySusan Stephens

One of the things I really love about northwest Washington state is that there are a multitude of attractions within a very small geographic area. The best of several worlds collide in that you get to experience the culture of a large metropolitan area (Seattle), as well as mountains, rainforests, islands and ocean. All of…