Sparkle'n Wood

<== It's the morning, so the most natural thing is to go get some coffee at the first Starbucks. The coffee tasted like Starbucks.

Took the opportunity to get another crab bowl thing >_<... Ann has a delicious piroshki. ==>

<== Time to hit the road. We drive over the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge... luckily it wasn't doing this...

We hit 100hrs in the car around here... 4500 miles at this point. Woof. ==>

<== Driving toward the northwest peninsula of Washington...

At Neah Bay... we tried to reach the northwest-most point in the US, but didn't quite make it. At least I have a picture of the sign! ==>

<== As we drive south along the coast, we encounter the city of Forks... suddenly everything seems so much more sparkly.

"Welcome to Forks, Washington. Twilight Capitol of the World. Where vampires and werewolves are welcome... and shirts are optional!" For some reason our shirts fell off... ==>

<== Here's Ann aka Bella with that guy that looks like an idiot, and the other 2 guys that look like idiots.

Since Thomas is gone now, we needed to replace him... here's our new friend Edward! He's hitching a ride... ==>

<== He's helping us find where the next stop is...

Ok, we got it figured out... we're headed toward the Hoh National Forest in Olympic National Park... ==>













<== It's a magical place... emerald moss drips off the trees and ferns carpet the ground.... it feels almost like we're walking in a forest that's asleep, and someday might wake and bloom and be glorious once again...

Beautiful... ==>

<== Massive...

Serene... ==>

<== A nursery log... an old tree fell in the forest a long time ago, and it's body is now home to a new growth of trees... even as it slowly returns to the earth, it provides for those who follow it...










You can get lost in the forest so easily... ==>

<== But once we find ourselves, we have to go... the forest and the trees might last forever, but this road trip won't...

As we drive away from Olympic National Park, we finally approach the Pacific Ocean... ==>

<== And there it is... from Atlantic to the Pacific... we've made it! The Washington coastline is beautiful...

We prepare for the sunset on the beach with a "delicious" carton of Riesling... ==>

<== Ann is taking it all in...

We all are... ==>

<== And the day is almost done... we only have the next one to worry about now...

Salut!