Michael is excited and not as good at puns as Adam

In following Adam's theme of posting about the things we are most excited about, I would like to highlight the awesomeness that will be our drive and the natural wonderment we will find upon arrival. Virtually every natural formation used in a Adamian or Gregorian Inspirational Quote will be witnessed on this trip.


I'm going to skip the part where we drive across the wall of roadtrip death (Oklahoma, Kansas: see above, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota), and get straight to the good stuff.


After passing through the Rocky Mountians in Utah, we will be spending most of our time around the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington. According to Wikipedia these are the peaks:

From Portland we will be able to see Mt. Hood as this picture taken from Wikipedia demonstrates:


If we are lucky, we'll get to visit the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park in Washington state (but I hear you have to take a boat there which costs dinero). It's the only rain forest in the Northern Hemisphere according to Wikipedia:


Putting these pictures in is harder than I thought...so...this is what I'm excited about: NATURE!