So this series has been very delayed. It was never meant to be delayed this long I just didn’t get around to it because I got busy and distracted with life. So I’m playing catch-up. Blame the video editing – it takes forever and I’m still working on my book. Yes, I’m actually working on
Tag: Washington
Here is a little bit of a sneak-peek from our trip to Orcas Island earlier this summer. I will post more as I have time. Despite the time it takes to get there I would 100% go back in a heartbeat. Orcas is one of the San Juan Island. To get there: fly into Seattle,
Title: Spells for ForgettingAuthor: Adrienne YoungPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: Delacorte Press I got this book from Book of the Month as an additional book for my birthday. I read it in a cabin on a rainy spring weekend. My setting was not required but it did add something extra. Synopsis: A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral
Hello all! Keltin and I are currently on an adventure and I cannot wait to share all of the details with you. I’ve been keeping this trip secret but I’m super excited that it is finally here. In the mean time, here were the some of the most read posts from 2021! #5 | Olympic
2021, the world’s second year living with Covid-19. There is a lot going on on this rock, spinning through space, and a lot of it is frightening but we can’t forget to live and to experience the world around us. I have done my best to expand my travels and to explore the different topics
This was an absolutely magical trip. I could have stayed and hiked for many more days. There is so much to see and do in the area. Keltin and I both want to go back to hike the trails we missed and see the wild flower meadows. If you missed any of the posts or
Our last day at Mount Rainier National Park, we wanted to make sure to see everything that we could. And we managed it by taking “mini” hikes. I put that in quotes because we hiked over 10 miles total and two of the hikes were 4 miles each. The shortest was .3 miles. We had
For those of you new to McGee Travel Tales, meet Geoff. He is our fluffy traveling companion when the Bear can’t come explore with us. We got him after a balloon ride at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. We didn’t take a ton of pictures with Geoff in Washington but the ones we did were
After our day in Portland it was still raining at Mount Rainier but it was mostly just a chilly drizzle so Keltin and I decided that we were going to explore the park some more and spy out all the waterfalls that we could. We had seen Silver Falls on our first day but there
We did not get to see the meadows full of wild flower a top Paradise. However, we did get to see some beautiful flowers all over the park, if in smaller batches. I absolutely loved the little pops of color or the new growth on the trees, showing in the form of bright verdant needles.





