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The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days

This past weekend, we took a brief break from some epic spring cleaning to check out The Garden Conservancy‘s first Open Days event of the year in the Los Angeles area.

Held all over the United States each year between March and November, Open Days allow you to snoop around other people’s backyards and/or find landscaping inspiration while simultaneously raising money to provide and preserve garden spaces across the country. It’s a fun, romantic and altruistic outing, whether you’re traveling in a different city or simply exploring your own. [Read more...]

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Washington State: Snow Day in Olympic

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Olympic National Park, Christmas Day 1997

There’s traveler’s wisdom in a simple concept: Don’t overplan.

We took our first longer-than-a-weekend, not-to-see-family, multi-destination trip together in December 1997. (And to think, we’d been together three years by then.) We put aside nine days to visit Seattle and Victoria, B.C., and the trip was cold, fun, rainy and exciting.

But when I look back, just about my favorite part was an unexpected side trip to Washington’s Olympic National Park.

TWT Travel Binder: Washington

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Adam and I traveled to Seattle and Olympic National Park in December 1997,
and someday plan to return
to visit the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and taste wine in some of the state’s 9 wine regions.

Here are some resources to help you plan your own “travels with two”
to Washington State.

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days

Washington State: Snow Day in Olympic

TWT Travel Binder: Washington

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