The Hoh rain forest is one of the most beautiful places I've had the chance to visit. Sadly, I had to cut the camping trip short because I am highly allergic to

The Hoh rain forest is one of the most beautiful places I've had the chance to visit. Sadly, I had to cut the camping trip short because I am highly allergic to whatever pollen or spores were in the air. I suspect it was fern spores that I had an allergic reaction to, because I had a similar experience in an area of New South Wales that has a lot of ferns. It still turned out to be a great trip. We drove up to Seattle, stopped at El Chupacabra, then went out to North Cascades National Park for a couple of days before heading home. Washington is such a beautiful state with so much diversity in the landscape. I love driving through the state from East to West because you see it all. Even better, I flew from Seattle to Minneapolis once and it was a clear sunny day for the whole trip. The view out the window was breathtaking and seeing the landscape change from forest to desert to forest to prairie and farmland was just the coolest thing. And flying over the mountains and seeing lakes up there all secluded. Beautiful.