Miles to Memories

 Peace Arch Historical State Park is located on boundary between U.S and Canada border. Its the nearest Canada border from Washington which is just 2 hrs. drive from Redmond. On the way you can also cover Deception Pass state Park and also Tulip fields if you are travelling during April month.  It was a 2 day trip as we decided to do camping in Deception Pass State Park on the way back. Below are the places we covered: Day 1 : Peace Arch Historical State Park, Mt. Eerie and campground Day 2 : Tulip fields and then  drove back to Home. Since it was just 2 hrs. drive we started around 11 in the morning and we had one more family along with us  in this journey. We reached the border at 2 pm. We had lunch as soon as we reached there and then started walking towards the park. Its a vast area full of green grass fields, yellow wildflowers and beautiful garden making it more attractive. The special feature of this park is that this park extends from Wash...

Two weeks before our special day, as I was sitting and browsing in my laptop the best places to travel in Winter nearby, I came across few winter activities in Oregon state. For our last year anniversary we had already visited Oregon Zoo Lights where a million of colorful LED lights will be displayed throughout the Zoo and also drove the Peacock Lane where all the houses in that lane will be decorated by dozens of lights. One of them we did not try was Cosmic snow tubing in Mt.Hood. The plan was finalized; This year anniversary again in Oregon.  On the first day we started around 9 am in the morning; we took I-90 East drove through Yakima where the entire landscape slightly changes from green tall trees to big mountains. From Yakima we drove through Route 97  and stopped at point called Windy Flats, Centerville where you can take a glimpse of giant windmills. It was 2 pm. We had our lunch here and started driving further.  From Route...

It was Thanksgiving Day.  As Indians we do not celebrate Thanksgiving but yes we were eagerly waiting for this day because we have two days holiday and it is a long weekend!!!. So, we planned to go for a long drive in our three weeks old new car!. The destination we decided was one of the beautiful place -  Crater Lake.  Our plan was to go to Painted hills in Bend on the first day, second day to Crater Lake and finally drive back home via Portland on third day.  Without knowing this plan would turn into one of the most adventurous trip, we started on Thursday early morning all excited!. We crossed freeway I405 South, drove to I90 East, from there took Route 82 and then Route 97 where the road conditions were good. From 97 we had to take the internal road Route 206 where the roads were some what snowy and were not cleaned. The major challenge to drive in these roads is due to the black ice formed on the surface of the roadways. We sw...