The Munchkin's Notebook

Early morning overlooking the lake After a good night sleep, we woke up around 5:00AM PST, but the lodge doesn’t start serving breakfast till 7:30 AM PST so we went for an early morning hike near the lodge.  Our first hike was 1.6 miles in the wood across from the lodge. It started out flat then started a climb upward, we heard a couple waterfall along the path but there were not good viewing locations along the trail to get pictures of the falls. The whole hike took us about hour and half to complete.  After splitting breakfast, which was eggs, bacon, potatoes, and a biscuit, we did a second hike.  The second hike was 3.5 miles long.  This hike took us along lake Quinault, over to the Rain Forest Loop, through the Cedar Bog, and back down to the lodge. This was an up and down trail with a few even spots. These trails are not for those who cannot handle hills and are considered a moderate level hikes.    We started the trail around 8:00AM and got back ...

View from our balcony at 7:30PM PST Our vacation started at 3:00AM EST time when we got up to go to the Columbus Airport for our 6:45AM EST flight to Detroit.   Originally, we were scheduled to fly Columbus to LA to Seattle, which would have put us in Washington state around 1:00PM PST.   However, due to COVID-19 and Delta reducing the occupancy levels on planes our itinerary changed.   So, we flew Columbus to Detroit to LA to Settle, which put us in Washington state at 3:00 PM PST.    Once we arrived in Seattle, we had a three hour drive out to Quinault Lodge in Olympic National Park.     We didn’t check into the lodge till about 7:00PM PST and got to bed around 9:00 PM PST.   So, our travel day lasted about 18 hours, needless to say the travel day was exhausting. A few notes about air travel in a pandemic, it is not scary it is fairly normal except for a few minor changes.   First off you must wear a mask the whole time, from the time you...