Category: Tours
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Crawling in the Dark at Colossal Cave: Ladder Tour
Arizona is HOT. Too hot. It’s that time of the year when we question why we’re not snowbirds yet. Oh that’s right, we still have 347 years left until retirement. Since we can’t retire yet and we were in need of a new adventure, we booked ourselves a tour of Colossal Cave Mountain Park, where… Read more
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Bald Eagle Viewing Along the Skagit River
From late November to early February, bald eagles migrate down from Alaska and Canada by the hundreds to the Skagit River in search of food. The Skagit River produces 60% of the Puget Sound’s wild Chinook Salmon so to the bald eagles, it’s an all you can eat buffet. Read more
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Portland Underground
Buried under Old Chinatown Portland is a series of connecting passages known as the Shanghai Tunnels. Today, much of the tunnels have been filled and boarded up but in the 19th century, the tunnels connected the basements of many hotels and taverns to the waterfront of the Willamette River. The tunnels were originally built to… Read more
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Wildlife Watching with Blackfish Tours (Outer Island Expeditions) from Anacortes
Outer Island Expeditions offers smaller sunset whale watching tours out of Anacortes through their Blackfish fleet. We had never done an evening tour before and previously had wonderful experiences touring during the day –lots of Orcas. So this time we opted to go on their sunset tour since we had heard from multiple sources that… Read more
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Ghosts of the Queen Mary
The RMS Queen Mary has a history as majestic as her namesake. Launched in 1934 by Queen Mary herself (the actual Queen consort of the UK & wife to King George V), the RMS Queen Mary (Royal Mail Ship) embarked on 1,000 North Atlantic crossings from the port of Liverpool between 1936 to 1967. So… Read more
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Touring Victoria BC in One Day
We spent a beautiful day in Victoria BC, Canada. Here are a few photos from our trip. Read more
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Skellig Michael, Ireland’s Number One Attraction (It’s EPIC)
Have we explored everything in Ireland? No. Are we a little too enthusiastic about this post? Quite possibly. But is Skellig Michael the most epic place to visit in Ireland? Yes, why yes it is. Forewarning: this post was overtaken by puffins. Read more
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Old Pulteney Distillery, Producer of the World’s Best Whisky
The Old Pulteney Distillery has the reputation of producing the finest single-malt in the world; the Old Pulteney 21 was named “World Whisky of the Year” in the Whisky Bible. Not having a predilection for alcohol, let alone hard alcohol, that all sounds like the ravings of an alcoholic to me but what do I… Read more
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Whisky Tasting at Dalwhinnie Distillery
The Dalwhinnie Distillery‘s bold white-washed walls are usually a stark contrast to the grey clouds of the rainy Scottish Highlands, making it stand out along the A889. Heading north on our road trip through Cairngorm National Park, the Dalwhinnie was along the way so we stopped for a private tour (lucky us) through one of… Read more
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Whale Watching Tour in the San Juan Islands
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