Flowing Lake, Snohomish, WA, site #27 Campground||Snohomish and Skykomish (Coast Salish) land Back at Flowing Lake! We’re in another new site this time. Site 27 has a couple of advantages over site 24 (our site from last time), but it also has one big drawback. It’s a prettier and larger site than #24, and theContinue reading “Camping Real Close to Yeehaw Season”
Category Archives: Disability
100% Wheelchair Accessible So We Can Zoom Zoom Zoom
Miner’s Corner County Park || 6/19/26 A new park! Well, new to us. And honestly, it IS relatively new. Welcome to Miner’s Corner County Park. This park was built as part of the appeasement process for all of the NIMBY’s who were cranky about the Brightwater Treatment Plant going in. The Brightwater facility boasts aContinue reading “100% Wheelchair Accessible So We Can Zoom Zoom Zoom”
“If You Love Something, Let it Go” Shouldn’t Be Applied to Infrastructure
June 7th, 2026 – North Creek Trail & McCollum Park Forest Loop Mill Creek & Everett, WA ||Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla land, and sidhubš (Snohomish) land Haven’t been here in ages! This is a pretty swanky trail that we take from the Mill Creek Town Center near Central Market up to McCollum Park, whereContinue reading ““If You Love Something, Let it Go” Shouldn’t Be Applied to Infrastructure”
We Meet Again, Mr. Flowing Lake Campground
Flowing Lake Snohomish County Park, site #24 Campground||Snohomish & Skykomish (Coast Salish) land Omg we’re back at Flowing Lake campground, and we’re not in site #4 this time! Last time, we had the ugliest camp site in the whole campground, so we made sure to really scope out the rest of the sites to findContinue reading “We Meet Again, Mr. Flowing Lake Campground”
Won’t You Be My Neighbour…hood Park?
May 22nd, 2026, Washington Park Arboretum Seattle, WA || Sxwacugwit, Duwamish land We’re baaaaaack! This marks Leeloo’s, Sieh’s, and my glorious return to hiking! Last year, we regained camping after thinking we’d lost it forever to my chronic illness, and this month we have triumphantly found a way to adapt hiking. Our new way ofContinue reading “Won’t You Be My Neighbour…hood Park?”
Yunnie & the Bike Trailer
[This is mostly me talking about my new/first wheelchair and the pet bike trailer that I hook on the back, rather than an adventure recap. There will be pics, but you might find it boring if you’re not interested in accessibility. Which sounds like a character failing on your part. An undesirable personality trait. Something.Continue reading “Yunnie & the Bike Trailer”
An Ugly Sight in a Beautiful Campground
Flowing Lake, Snohomish, WA, site #4 Campground||Snohomish and Skykomish (Coast Salish) land It’s been a while! We’ve still been going camping every month, but I haven’t done write-ups for the past two camping trips because they were sort of more of the same at Kanaskat-Palmer. Our February trip was actually quite snowy (without much accumulation),Continue reading “An Ugly Sight in a Beautiful Campground”
Campground Cats & Poor Energy-Conservation Choices
Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, site #25 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land January 8-10th, 2026 We weren’t able to go camping at all in December due to the TWO atmospheric rivers that were causing flooding. We technically could have gone earlier in the month, but I had work, so no dice. Poor Leeloo didn’t understand why I wentContinue reading “Campground Cats & Poor Energy-Conservation Choices”
A (Heated) Room with a View
Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, site #35 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land November 27-29th, 2025 FIRST DAY Trying something different this time. We were way too chilly during our October camping trip, so this month I decided to spring for a site with partial amenities. This means electrical hook ups! Since it’s cooler now, I opted to notContinue reading “A (Heated) Room with a View”
Camping By the Green River Again
Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, ADA site #21 Campground||Muckleshoot (Coast Salish) land October 9th-11th, 2025 Got Majel all loaded up, though this time with the new-to-me Yakima rooftop cargo box. I also swapped out our old igloo cooler for my big Coleman one I bought several years ago. Got the kids loaded up and off we went!Continue reading “Camping By the Green River Again”