Crossing Washington: Sequim, Port Townsend and Poulsbo

Today wasn’t a completely pre-planned day so Eitan started researching all the places to explore on our drive to Tacoma.  Suddenly there was plenty to do, which led to a very full day – what better way to celebrate our 9th Wedding Anniversary! Where we were staying, Sequim, is known for the Lavender Trail.   We…

Seattle: Parks, Salmons, and Airplanes

Today’s blog post actually happened at the end of our trip after visiting the National Parks, but for the sake of simplicity and continuity, we will post this one as the 3rd day in Seattle. On our last full day in Seattle, we scratched off some additional areas we wanted to explore. First, we went…

The Great Smokey Mountains National Park

One of Eitan’s bucket list items is to visit the top National Parks in the U.S; there are 63 National Parks in the US, and while visiting all of them might take some time, we are OK with visiting the most famous ones first. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park usually lands in the top…

Happy Constitution Day, Bergen!!!

Our flight to Bergen arrived really late, but we were still able to see the mighty Norwegian Fjords from the air. We were so lucky to choose the hostel right above the loudest hostel in the city so since we couldn’t sleep we walked around to see the excitement but didn’t last long because we…

The Bay Of Kotor

We took an expensive car (driver set up by the nice owner of the hotel we were at) to bring us to the bay of Kotor, our first stop in Montenegro. Montenegro was part of former Yugoslavia and gained independence in 2006. The vote heralded the end of the former Union of Serbia and Montenegro –…