Before we left Seattle, I took Dina out to the Olympic Peninsula for her first backpacking experience. We spent a couple nights in the interior of the park with our friends Faye and Nick, and then another night at Shi Shi Beach by ourselves. That, combined with a few nights of camping on our cross country drive meant plenty of time outdoors in beautiful places.

Both Olympic and Glacier National Park are places worth visiting and (hopefully) re-visiting; there’s no such thing as “enough time” in either place, and we’re eager to go back whenever we can.

All the pictures from our Olympic trip are up here and the ones from our cross-country drive are here.