2005 • Pacific Northwest
November 19, 2005 to November 27, 2005
Other than Baja California and England (which you will see later), I am continually finding myself heading back to the Pacific Northwest; to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. While I didn’t make it all the way to Canada on this trip, I was certainly pestering my parents to do so! Over Thanksgiving Break in 2005 (during my sophomore year in high school), we decided to drive up to Washington to pick up an old sports car that my dad purchased. Part of the reason why we made it a family trip instead of just having the car shipped was because we also wanted to visit family up in Olympia, Washington. While driving up to Washington, we stopped in both Sacramento and Salem, the capitals of California and Oregon respectively before reaching our destination in a third state capital: Olympia. While in Washington, we ventured all the way up to Seattle where I ate the most expensive cheeseburger in my life at the top of the Space Needle and walked around Pike Place Market. On Thanksgiving, we spent time with family and enjoyed a delicious turkey dinner. On Friday, November 25, we decided to get going in the evening and started the long drive south back to California with my dad’s sports car in tow. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Hogan family trip without some sort of disaster. Just as we crossed the Oregon-Washington state line, one of the wheels fell off of the car that we were towing. As such, we had to spend far more time than we wanted on the side of the very busy Interstate 5 in Portland. My second cousin then drove down to Portland with a flatbed trailer and took the car back to Olympia and we then had to ship the car from Washington to California once we got home.
