Crater Lake

Crater Lake is the only National Park located in Oregon. It used to be a volcano that eventually collapsed under its caldeira’s own weight.

We stopped there for a short but lovely stay on our way towards California.

Wake-boarding at Lake Billy Chinook

Lake Billy Chinook is a small artificial lake on the Deschutes river, right in the Central Oregon and far from the beaten tracks. 

Since we learned it was pretty, friendly and - most of all - that we could have another wakeboard session, we adapted our route to pass by this lake.

Here is the video of the coldest wakeboard day we've ever had 😱:

Woodburn's Drag Racing

Typical American sport event : the Drag Racing ! The concept is pretty easy: you simply need a - at least - 2'500 HP engine, a frame as light as possible, a couple of tires, and you're ready to race for 400 meters. 

The best ones need slightly more than 5 seconds to reach this distance ... and they need 20 l of fuel for these 5 seconds !

We have spend a day attending the Woodburn's Drag Racing. Very interesting, but also very, very LOUD !!!!

The original video (with the appropriate soundtrack) is here whereas the Youtube version is available below:

Sorry Yaël for being so long to publish this new video ... days are too short 😁. We have finally decided to bypass the Canada to let us more time for chilling out while driving south where the temperatures are higher ! 🌞

Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks

After our stay in Moab, we headed north towards Salt Lake City. We found this city very interesting and discovered that it is actually more than just “the city of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games”. 

Salt Lake City was created - and is today still mostly controlled - by the Mormons, we could feel their influence in many aspects of the city as well as in the proposed touristic attractions. 

The community hosts the world's biggest genealogical database where we can freely access tons of data regarding our ancestors. We've spent a bit of time there, but not enough to find relevant information about our family 😀

  

We then drove to Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is the world’s oldest National Park (created in 1872) and is home of a huge amount of geysers, hot springs and impressive number of wild Buffalos and Bears. It is a really nice park and despite the high number of tourists, everything is very well organised and the visits were always pleasant.



The following video is an extract of our visit of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks:

No much to say about Glacier National Park as it is basically the same as our Alps, but not as nice 😉

Happy July 4th

We're ready to celebrate today the America's national day !

Happy July 4th to all of you from Seattle 😆