June 22nd, 2006
Destination NorthWest
Last December, the company I work for got acquired by Unica. The brightest bit of news probably was the fact that Unica gives a month paid leave, what they call sabbatical to all employees after every 6 years of service. Since my tenure from MarketSoft was grandfathered in, I was eligible for a "sabbatical" almost as soon as we were acquired.
My husband, Joe and I decided to use about 2 and half weeks of that time traveling the American North West and hiking the National Parks in that area.
Being the active, ambitious, over-achieving type “A” personalities that we are, we decided to pack in as much as we could into the trip. What's a vacation without a little sweat, huh?

I'm hoping to publish the travel narrative as I go. Check often for updates.

After much head scratching, this is the itinerary that we came up with:
(Thu, June 22nd) Fly to Seattle - Stay in Seattle for the night.
(Fri, June 23rd) In Seattle. Drive to Port Angeles for the night
(Sat, June 24th) Olympic NP. Stay at Forks, WA.
(Sun, June 25th) Visit Mt. St.Helens. End at Longmire/Paradise in Mt. Rainier.
(Mon, June 26th) In Mt. Rainier.
(Tue, June 27th) Drive to W. Glacier MT.
(Wed, June 28th) Glacier NP. End at Many Glacier.
(Thu, June 29th) Glacier NP.
(Fri, June 30th) Drive to Theodore Roosevelt NP, Medora, ND.
(Sat, July 1st) Theodore Roosevelt NP.
(Sun, July 2nd) Badlands, Wall, SD.
(Mon, July 3rd) Mt. Rushmore.
(Tue, July 4th) Wind Cave NP & Devils Towers.
(Wed, July 5th) Longmont, CO.
(Fri, July 6th) Fly back to Boston.