This seemed to work last year

Hello everyone,

We're back! Another in our series of trips to see the country. We had no complaints about access to last year's blog (unlike the 2005 trip) and we had a relatively easy time updating things as we went so we'll use the same style, format, and company as a year ago. Easy enough.

This year's trip will start with a plane ride into Portland, OR. Right now the rest is sorta up in the air. We'll probably break for the coast and camp along the Pacific but one thing we need to do in the next couple of weeks is get a better sense of the route we'll take. Likely we'll head southwest to the coast, follow the ocean a bit, cut across Oregon (stopping by Crater Lake), head into Idaho, maybe get as far west as the western side of the Tetons, cut up Idaho and into Washington. We'll likely spend some time in Seattle (possibly getting to the Red Sox-Mariners game on June 27) and spending some time in places like Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, and others.

We've got a new tent this year, a Hammerhead 3, and we set it up in the living room (the better to freak out Charlie) over Memorial Day weekend. It's quite nice. We're very excited to use it.