Guest guest Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Thanks Jeff, I will certainly go to the Raw Food Cafe. I now have those websites to check out also and Port Townsend sounds interesting as well. Don't know how much travelling we will be doing. I am coming to spend time with " raw people " who I've never met in person and we haven't made any hard and fast plans yet. It will certainly be an unusual and, hopefully, interesting time. I thought it would be good for me to have places of interest to go to in case we all need a bit of space from each other. Toni Searching for the best free email? Try MetaCrawler Mail, from the #1 metasearch service on the Web, http://www.metacrawler.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Hi, Toni, and welcome in advance to the great Pacific Northwest! If you get down to Portland, there are potlucks here as well. The 2nd Wednesday of each month and the 3rd Tuesday, both begin at 7 p.m. Details are on www.rawportland.org website. I lived in the Seattle area until last summer, but have relocated to just north of Vancouver, WA, which is just north of Portland. Alas, no raw cafes or restaurants down here. If you're interested in seeing some of our great natural wonders, I would highly recommend the Mt. St. Helens National Monument, just off I-5 and north of Longview/Castle Rock. They have a Visitors Center, an interpretive center, and an observatory, 3 separate buildings, you can pay for admission to all 3 at the Visitors Center, which is the first one you encounter after you leave I-5. The observatory is the closest view that you can get to the volcano, and, if the weather is good, you get a great view right into the open crater. If you enjoy camping, Seaquest State Park is located right across from the Visitors Center, and there's usually space during the week. There are a number of hiking trails in the Monument, lots of wild flowers, etc. Very nice. If she does anything mildly interesting, it's a good place to be. If she does something very interesting (like a bit of an eruption, more than your average steam plume), the observatory may be closed. More great natural wonders can be found along the coast, the Cascades, and the Columbia River Gorge. There are numerous hiking trails along the Gorge that take you past some spectacular waterfalls and up into the hills, where you find cascading-type falls and falls that you can't see from the highway. If you think you might make it down this way, let me know, and, depending on when you're in the area, I could make time to show you some of the sights. Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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