Marymere Falls and Port Townsend - Overnight Tour

• 2 Days / 1 Night

• Ferry ride and cross a floating bridge

• Visit Lake Crescent and walk trails as desired

• Stay at a Port Townsend hotel of your liking: Historic, modern, or non fussy

• Great snacks, and complimentary BPA free water bottle to keep

• Available year around

• Clean and comfortable quality SUV

This fun filled overnight tour will trigger your senses with both natural and historic beauty.

Port Townsend is known for the many Victorian buildings remaining from its late 19th-century heyday and as a maritime center for independent boat builders. Port Townsend is an Historic District and a U.S. National Historic Landmark District.

Less rain! Port Townsend is significantly drier than the surrounding region due to being in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, receiving only 19 inches or 480 millimeters of rain per year.

An Officer and a Gentlemen was partially filmed at Fort Worden, and stay in the Tides Motel, where filming was done, or downtown in an historic brick hotel.

Time on your own for dinner and a relaxing evening, and we’ll meet up for breakfast or afterward to visit the Fort before heading back. A delightful local favorite overnight experience for any age and ability.

$599 per person plus tax / Minimum 2 guests, must know each other
Included: Driver/Experienced guide 2 days, ferry both ways, entrance fees to park, and 2 lunches
Excluded: Hotel, so you can choose your own budget

Olympic National Park and Hoh Rain Forest - Overnight Tour

• See world’s largest Sitka Spruce tree

• Forks, WA (Twilight movie series)

• Lunches

• Hoh Rain Forest

• Ruby Beach

• Lake Quinault Lodge and Quinault Rain Forest Trail
  
  $1099 per person plus tax / Minimum 2 guests, must know each other

You'll travel in our comfortable 5 passenger SUV with your experienced driver/guide. Walk the fern strewn trail from the ranger station to Marymere Falls, and take your time in the moss ridden Hoh Rain Forest. You’ll stop at Ruby Beach to see the rocky rugged beaches of the Pacific Ocean with Sea stacks and massive driftwood. Next you'll make your way to the hotel to relax overnight in the historic Lake Quinault Lodge, or choose a local non-presumptuous casual motel nearby. Enjoy breakfast at the hotel or with your guide if you stay elsewhere, then wander with your guide through trails in the Quinault Rain Forest and/or visit Ocean Shores on the Pacific, and have lunch there. Great food!

Included: Hotel, 2 lunches, entry into the National Park, Ferry fees, snacks and our BPA free water bottles

Pacific Ocean Beaches And Lighthouses - Overnight Tour

Crash! Shrrrrooooom. The Pacific Ocean, so different than the Atlantic Ocean!

Day 1
Depart from the Seattle area on your PRIVATE overnight tour with your driver/experienced guide. Heading South on I-5 then West to the ocean. On the way you’ll stop for lunch for oysters, clams, or non-seafood menu choices in Raymond, and visit the Northwest Carriage Museum. Then continue to Longbeach, over 30 miles of sandy beach!

Once there, your guide will show you around and take you to your hotel for a break to unwind and relax.

• Carriage Museum

• Visit Oysterville for oysters if desired

• Optional horseback riding

• Optional Salmon fishing on Charter Boat

• The day is flexible with time on your own to dine and explore the town. Walk the beach, the dunes, and boardwalk as you wish.

• Longbeach is a fun and touristy yet locally driven town, with lots to see and do

Day 2
Not an early morning, but when you’re ready we’ll zip off to breakfast to a wonderful local restaurant before another visit to the Pacific Ocean at Ilwaco, a charter boat fishing town.

• Lighthouses

• Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

• Visit Fort Canby State Park

• Lunch, then make your way back, arriving approximately 4:00pm

NOTE: If you are a fisherman, you are welcome to purchase a ticket in advance for one of the boats, and we will gladly drop you off at the Charter Boat dock and wait for you.

This tour can be converted to a 3 day tour for your convenience and pleasure at the Pacific Ocean. Just contact Cheryl to work out the details.

$899 per person plus tax / Minimum 2 guests who know each other

Includes: Hotel, 2 lunches, Entry fees excluding optional offers, complementary BPA free water bottles, and plenty of snacks

Grand Coulee Dam and Washington’s Amazing Landscapes - Overnight Tour

Wowza! Washington State’s geology is not only beautiful but fascinating. Visit a piece of the Channeled Scablands and Coulees on this exciting desert tour.

DAY 1

• Drive through the Cascade Mountains and along the Columbia River

• Channeled Scablands

• See wheat fields in abundance

• Ice Age remnants, erratics and kettles along the way

• Dry Falls State Park

• Grand Coulee Dam Laser Show

Enjoy the drive through the lush Cascade Mountains, with it’s 190’ tall evergreen trees, then through Eastern Washington’s orchards. The land formations and terrain change constantly and it’s such an eye opener. See the Columbia river and head up hill to the Waterville Plateau, where they grow an abundance of winter wheat. Learn about the building of the dams in America in the 1930s, including the Pacific Northwest, in a fun and simple way. You’ll spend the night at a moderate 3 star hotel with hot tub, small pool and air conditioning. It’s hot over there in Eastern WA in summer, and you can just walk across the street to the Grand Coulee Dam and watch the evening Laser show presented on the Dam each night in summer. It’s an outside experience at dusk, and worth it to listen to the voice of James Earl Jones.

DAY 2

• Grand Coulee Dam, possible tour of the interior of the dam

• Coulees and exposed rocks from millions of years ago

• Foamy Soap Lake

• Ginko Petrified Forest

• Drive through a windmill farm

• Agricultural scenes

You’ll start with breakfast, then if it is open, you’ll take a tour of the Grand Coulee Dam. You’ll have seen the incredible Dry Falls the night before, and we’ll continue the drive through the Coulees. We’ll explain what they are and how that were formed as we drive through all the small lakes in the coulees. You’ll also see many farms in various forms of growth, see a Ginkgo Petrified Forest, and see the Mighty Columbia in it’s grandeur. There is also a windmill farm before returning back to the Seattle area. This tour has a well-rounded exposure to the diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

$825 per person plus tax / Minimum 2 guests or more, all must know each other

Includes: Hotel, 2 lunches,1 breakfast, entry fees, plenty of snacks, and complimentary BPA free water bottle each

Channeled Scablands, Eastern WA

Pacific Northwest Geology - Overnight Tour

Scablands, you wonder, what is this? We will tell you! The Channel term comes from Ice Age flooding approximately 17,000 – 13, 000 years ago. You’ll spend the night in a beautifully kept Queen Anne historic hotel in a small town, just perfect for relaxing.

From Seattle, you’ll travel through several terrains, including mountains, valleys, orchards, then desert, farming, and the coulees. You’ll see Palouse Falls, and landscapes that are jaw dropping. Every part of this tour is exciting from a ‘change’ perspective. There is so much variety of scenery it’s baffling. Yes, it is!

• Deserts and sage brush

• Random rocks in strange places (called erratics)

• Lush wheat fields and orchards

• Dry Falls, Palouse Falls

• Beautiful historic hotel stay

• Lunches

The hotel is lovingly updated yet shows all its historic beauty, and the town has its own history with a fine old train depot and catchy restaurants. A complimentary bottle of wine is included to enjoy in your hotel room.

$899 per person plus tax / Minimum 2 guests that know each other

Includes: A great tour! Plus a beautiful historic hotel room, bottle of wine, 2 lunches, plenty of snacks, and our complimentary BPA free water bottles.

Wine Tasting – Stonehenge – Columbia Gorge

Stonehenge. Really, a full-size replica in Washington State.

From Seattle to the Oregon border you’ll first experience Multnomah Falls, a beautiful double waterfall beside the Columbia River. Walk to the bridge and experience the view from the top of one falls to the bottom of another, and get that perfect photo. Enjoy the gift shop and relax before we continue.

Washington and Oregon are major wine contributors in the U.S. This tour will cover three wineries, each unique in both the tasting rooms and the wines themselves.

The Gorge has many eventful stops, including the Bonneville Dam, where you’ll see sturgeon and salmon. Bridge of the Gods is a fun story and there are locks along the river. You’ll stop at a winery on the Gorge with a beautiful venue, then make your way to The Dalles, a nice large town on the Columbia River. You’ll have lunch along the way, then time on your own once in The Dalles to settle in and enjoy dinner.

Day 2 has some different experiences for you. Visit a full-size replica of Stonehenge that you can walk in and touch. It’s on a hill with a fantastic view overlooking the Columbia River and the Gorge. Then nearby you’ll love the view while wine tasting and having lunch. Next stop after driving through central Washington is the Yakima area, and the Rattlesnake Hills AVA. We’re sure you’ll notice the different aspect of flavors. Lastly you’ll head back to Seattle through the breathtaking Cascade Mountains.

• Three wineries in 3 different AVAs

• 2* hotel rated 4.5 in Oregon, set on a hill overlooking the Columbia River. It is a modern, low-rise hotel with seasonal outdoor mineral pool. Good hotel, good location, but you are welcome to ask about an upgrade to a different hotel if desired, and if available

• Stonehenge

• Bonneville Dam, Sturgeon, Salmon

$925 per person plus tax, Minimum 2 guests that know each other

Included: Hotel, 3 wine tastings, 2 lunches, plenty of snacks, and our BPA free complimentary water bottles.