- Seattle Space Needle from the Chihuly Glasshouse
- Seattle from above
- July 4 fireworks – Gas Works Park
- Peddler Brewing Company Seattle: one of 9 breweries in Ballard
- Diablo Lake vista on Thunder Knob Trail – North Cascades National Park, WA
- Cascadian Farms near Rockport, WA: organic berries, flowers, and ice cream!
- Liberty Bell Mountain above Washington Pass – North Cascades Highway
- Grand Coulee Dam, WA
- Historic Wallace, ID. Survived the Big Burn of 1910.
- First huckleberry taste: pie and shake
- Lake McDonald, our introduction to Glacier National Park, MT
- Red Jammer on the Going to the Sun Road
- View from the Loop – only switchback on the Going to the Sun Road
- Hiking to St Mary Falls
- Hidden Lake trail, along the Continental Divide
- Hidden Lake and Bearhat Mountain
- Wild Goose Island on St Mary Lake
- Many Glacier Hotel on the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake
- Ranger Neil pointing out Bear Grass on our 10-mile ranger-led hike
- Ptarmigan Wall towering 2,000ft above Iceberg Lake
- Heavy Shield at sunset
- Our 1920’s log cabin at Colter Bay Village, Grand Teton National Park, WY
- Garnet Canyon trail – switchbacks through the wildflowers
- The trail becomes a boulder field – Middle Teton in the background
- Post-lunch descent back to the valley floor
- Grand Teton from Inspiration Point
- Tetons, 6AM.
- Storm clouds gathering during our raft trip
- Neil’s reaction to Nick’s poncho mishap
- Yellowstone National Park: first of many bison sightings
- Lower Falls of the Yellowstone viewed from Uncle Tom’s Trail
- Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from Artist Point
- Norris Geyser Basin: geysers, hot springs and fumaroles!
- Otherworldy landscape at Norris Geyser Basin
- Midway Geyser Basin: unbelievable colors
- The appropriately named Grand Prismatic Spring
- Grotto Geyser blowing off some steam
- Old Faithful: every 90 minutes!
- Old Faithful Inn: if Escher built a treehouse
- Hiking up Mt Washburn – visibility: 75 miles to the Tetons
- Roosevelt Arch: the North entrance of the park
- Mammoth Hot Springs, terraces of travertine
- Brink of the lower falls of the Yellowstone
- Beartooth Pass, MT
- William Clark’s signature carved into Pompeys Pillar, MT – only remaining physical evidence of the Lewis & Clark expedition
- Our wakeup call in Medora, ND – Buffalo Gap Guest Ranch
- Peaceful Valley Ranch, waiting for Calvin and Rudy
- Bison jam! Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND
- View of the Little Missouri from Wind Canyon trail
- North Dakota badlands
- Petrified forest in the South unit of Roosevelt National Park
- Oxbow Overlook – North unit of Roosevelt National Park
- Lewis & Clark: 1804/2013 – Fort Mandan, ND
- Crossing the Mississippi at its source – Itasca State Park, MN
- Duluth, MN at night
- Big Manitou Falls: highest waterfalls in Wisconsin
- 3624.4 miles of dust and dirt
- Current Park count: 23!
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