Olympia / Olympic National Park

Hello Washington!

Another rainy morning. We woke up and started our drive from Portland to Olympia!

Two hours later, we made it to our first stop of the day, Olympia Coffee Roasters. We did some more work and research for our day here. I drank a coconut latte and Ryker got an Ethiopia pour over, both being very good.

After we had finished our coffees, we went out to Capital Lake Park, where we walked around the lake and make some very late breakfast. Afterwards we went to Target to do some grocery shopping. We put the groceries away then went down to Perceval Landing to make dinner and search for a camp spot for the night.

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We woke up early the next day to get gas and head up to Olympic National Park. We stopped for coffee at Starbucks then took the two hour drive up through all the fog.

We had planned on taking a two mile hike to some hot springs, but the road was closed so we ate some bagels and made a new plan for the day.

First we took a little 1.5 mile hike up to Marymere Falls. Nothing too crazy or strenuous. Then we went to the lookout at the Salmon Cascades, where all the salmon jump out of the water and up stream.

There wasn’t much else that we wanted to do there that wasn’t completely out of the way, so we stopped in Port Angeles and went to a Walmart to run some errands then got an early dinner at Little Caesars Pizza. Then we started our trip towards Seattle.

We had been driving about an hour before we had to hop on the ferry, neither one of us have ever been on a ferry with our car so we were a little nervous. But it ended up being just fine and we made it to Seattle.

Our first stop was to find a Planet Fitness and then a camp spot for the night.