Don't know where we're going, but we're making great time.
Ah, train travel! The romantic swaying of two souls experiencing the American countryside via rails. How did dedicated plane travelers make the switch? Did it take? Will we embrace hobo culture? Well…that all remains to be seen. We had originally taken Amtrak‘s Hiawatha service from Chicago to Milwaukee the previous week and were well pleased…
We’re on the road again! Though we’ve only gone up the road a bit to what my friend Janine refers to as a suburb of Chicago, it still counts as we did cross a state line to get to Milwaukee: the city of beer and cheese and brats. Other than culinary considerations, the big draw…
We’ve been through Astoria, Oregon several times on this leg of the journey. The town is on the path to our razor clam hunt in Fort Stevens Park and our after-hunt breakfast at the Pig N’ Pancake. But we made an effort this weekend to explore Astoria without checking the tide charts. Sunday Market On…
For those that have read my novel, Thunderbird and Whale, I present a variety of what I call innovative (others may say wacky) solutions to bridging some of the gaps between consequences and life saving and sustaining needs after a Cascadia subduction zone event. In other words, if you don’t drown, what do you need…
Aberdeen, Washington has a bit of an identity crisis. Town signs welcome you to the “Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula” and to the “Lumber Capitol of the World,” and one says to simply “Come as you are.” I never let an oddity pass, so I took note of it and discovered what is probably the…
We simply cannot get away from snow. I’m not sure that Jan is trying that hard, but snow in June was not in my plans. Somehow we ended up thwarted by snow and playing on top of it the same day. How, you ask? Well, Jan had a client engagement in Morton, Washington, which is…
So, our trip north to Forks, Washington wasn’t 100% focused on seeing sets from the Twilight movies. The peninsula is a destination in its own right and we were determined to see as much of it as we could. 400 miles in one day? We’re crazy like that. Humptulips, WA Humptulips is a Salish word…
One seafood I really enjoy are razor clams, and they are always best when you harvest your own. It requires heading to the beach about 2 hours before low water. Oregon has a more liberal season than Washington state so it was off to Oregon this morning. I left at 4:15 am and was back…
When I selected this location (Grayland, WA) the idea was to be centrally located for some client work and be in an area different from Portland or Seattle (cheaper too, although a rental car has been a must so that’s a wash). One of the enjoyable things about being out west with my blue-eyed girl…
If you want to eat fresh, delicious crab you have two options: buy crab from someone who caught it or catch it yourself. Being the intrepid sorts of people, we opted for the later option. It probably helped that our current host had equipment for us to borrow. See also: Jan’s recipe for Easy Boiled…