We’ve been spending as much time as possible on our bikes before ski season starts up. A few weekends ago we got the chance to check out a brand new trail called Side Hustle at Tiger Mountain. Everyone’s been raving about this new trail and for good reason- there’s something for everyone (read: Ryan and …
Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour came highly recommended to us by several friends and family members so on a rainy Saturday morning we drove up to Seattle to check it out. We had no idea what to expect, without prior knowledge on the subject, but we are sure to recommend the tour to others in the …
If somebody told me a year ago that I would be a school-based travel therapist working an amazing contract in Washington less than 2 months after graduating OT school, I would have told them that they were nuts. I heard that travel therapy wasn’t for new graduates, that school-based jobs were hard to find, that …
Leavenworth is a hidden gem located in the Cascade Mountains in Central Washington, about 3 hours from us. Everyone loves Leavenworth for its Bavarian themed restaurants and shops but mountain bike enthusiasts could spend all day exploring the trails in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. We spent this past weekend in Leavenworth exploring both sides of …
It’s so easy to spend all of our free time riding mountain bikes with a ton of great riding nearby and a bucket list that seems to grow instead of shrinking. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that Washington has more than just MTB trails for us to explore while we’re here! A few weekends …
As a new graduate occupational therapist, I took a big bold step into the world of professional practice: travel therapy. In February of 2021 I began wondering what I was going to do after I graduated. I followed several travel therapists on Instagram and aspired to travel someday but figured I would do it after …
As many of you know, Healey’s mountain bike was stolen on our way across the country. Well, Healey just picked up a sweet “new to her” rig. Since then, she has had all of the new bike hype. The single track out here has been unreal. Almost every time we ride nowadays it’s comparable to …
Our apartment in NW Olympia is in a great location with lots of opportunities for exploring in nature and around town. We can walk/ride to the Puget Sound and downtown Olympia. In under 2 hours we can be at either the Pacific coast beaches or Seattle. Then there’s Mt. Rainier (which we can see from …
Day 0: Cars are PACKED. Everything we need for this adventure and those coming are packed into our two cars. For us, this includes lots of bicycles and other sports equipment so our cars are packed as tightly as possible. Everything we aren’t bringing is being stored at this point. We slept at my parent’s …