How do you chose your holiday / vacation destination?

Most people have heard of the big cities rising between the mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Spokane. But what of smaller towns with mountains for skyscapers and rivers as highways? What of treasures buried in the nooks and cranies of some of the nation’s most stunning geological features? Smaller towns can become ... See more

With a bucket list that includes basically every country on this planet, how do you decide which one to go to next? How can you possibly choose when there’s such an overload of possibilities and offers? Are you going to go by what you have been recommended? Do you pick a place you’ve read or heard about? Or simply one that is warm and sunny and doe... See more

When you're looking at any mountain, you're looking at its vertical exposure. The Rockies rest on a massive plateau that is already often nearly a mile high. Even western Kansas is 4500 feet high. So, if you look at say Pikes Peak, a mountain that's about 14, 500 feet, you may be standing on a flat prairie to the east that is already 5000' high. So... See more

Both areas are extremely beautiful! We have traveled extensively in all 50 US states and found landscape beauty in all.

If I had to chose one area for vacation, it would probably be the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) due to the diversity of climates and types of landscapes accessible within a relatively small geographic area. We used to ... See more