September Remembers May…
It’s late September 2021 and we’re on another three-day camp trip, though this time with heavy hearts. We’re mourning theContinue Reading
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North along the Olympic Peninsula
There is a reason Washington is so lush, and why it has a rainforest. The rain pours down regularly, and,Continue Reading
Washington’s Best: Aunt Chicken!
Washington: wild coastlines, and rubber duckies, and SeaHawks blankets, and Aunt Chicken… To some, Washington conjures up images of crispContinue Reading
A Trio of Washington Ironies
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. – Anatole France (novelist and poet; Nobel laureate 1921)Continue Reading
Move Over, Kurt Cobain: Salmon in the House and Duckleberry’s Moving In
Aberdeen, Washington. On an early rainy grey morning before the seaside town of Aberdeen had risen from its bed, weContinue Reading
Dismal Nitch? Welcome to Washington
That moment had come, it was time to leave our newly beloved Oregon behind, and head north again. And whatContinue Reading
Water dog, not…
Throw the ball, Dad, into the water! Throw it! Throw it! Throw it for me! Into the water, Dad! TheContinue Reading
Oregon Fan Club, Part IV: Fish Ladders and Herman the Sturgeon
Bonneville Dam at Cascade Locks, Oregon Built in the 1930s by the Army Corps of Engineers, The Bonneville Dam stretchesContinue Reading
Oregon Fan Club, Part III: The Great Columbia River
Six hundred miles north (and a little to the east), the cool rains of British Columbia fall through the mountains,Continue Reading
Critters in the Night
Thump, thump, thump. Oregon State Park. I awoke in the middle of the night to what sounded like someone knockingContinue Reading
Nomads in a Little Red Trailer 