I've been posting tons of things about other travel I've been doing, but tonight I'm going to head back to my road trip. We left off as Tasha and I were leaving Seattle. So let's return to the I-5 and our totally unplanned jaunt down the west coast.
The International Rose Test Garden in Portland is really cool. They have TONS of roses (duh) with really interesting names. Unfortunately, I didn't write any of them down, but I did spend about hour taking pictures. The shots below were my favs:
This is Powell's City of Books in Portland. THE absolute coolest bookstore ever. It is basically a 4-story, city-block-sized warehouse chock full of books, on every topic imaginable, including bargains and new books. I could have spent days in there, but I restricted myself to only an hour, because that's how long our free parking was good. But the mere existence of this bookstore really made me consider moving Portland into the number one spot on my "Cities I Want To Move To List."
This is Salt Creek Falls, a random waterfall (which happens to be the second highest in Oregon) that we came across in the Willamette National Forest on the way to Crater Lake. It was pretty cool to be at a point overlooking the top of the falls.
Now we come to Crater Lake, which was my absolutely-must-visit national park. And it did NOT disappoint. The water was so blue and clear and it was so uncrowded and peaceful, even on a gorgeous summer day. We only spent a few hours hear, but one day I plan to come back and spend a few days. So amazing!
They call this little rock formation the Phantom Ship, because it looks like a ship, I guess, although I didn't really get that. But the towering trees at this edge of the lake lent such a majestic note to the view.
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