Weather on the Washington Coast is unpredictable year round. You can leave the blazing heat of inland to find nothing but cold wet fog draping the trees and dampening your enthusiasm for the outdoors. This weekend the coast opted for best behavior with sunny days in the 60s, a clear blue sky, and mild nights. …
We’ve been camping. More pictures here.
Pioneer Coffee is a small space with lots of windows that face out on parked cars, the Alki Beach promenade and Puget Sound. I’m always thinking that parking needs to be eliminated from these pedestrian heavy areas, opening up the views from the sidewalks and making the public spaces more pleasant. Pioneer’s location didn’t change …
National Geographic’s fabulous blog, Intelligent Travel, and Ben’s Daily Transit both had nice things to say about my recent “Thin Edge” post. Thanks for the link love, comrades in travel! The prolific author of Less Than a Shoestring nominated me for a Travvie, submitting NEV in the best single author blog category. I don’t expect …
Angela Nickerson, author of A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome
Here’s the deal. You write a 200 word (or less) post following the prompt below. Include a photo as per the guidelines. When you’re done, drop a link to your post in the comments. I’ll compile them and Angela will do a short critique of each participant’s post. Once that’s done, I’ll post the entire workshop back here on Nerd’s Eye View.
Here’s the writing prompt:
On the short three block downtown radius in White Center, you can find a Halal shop that seems to serve mostly Ethiopian or Somalian clientèle, a handful of Vietnamese pho places, a Cambodian cafe and a Cambodian supermarket – as well as a few other markets that have a staggering variety of Asian and Mexican …