Unforgettable

As someone who is pretty content to eat the same thing day after day – at my desk, no less – and who’s willing to admit that much of it starts out frozen in a cardboard box, I don’t think it’s right to call myself a true foodie. I do, however, love to eat when …


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In Search of a Gringo Free Mexico

Or, A Week in Manzanilla Far removed from the shouts of street hawkers and the gaggle of American tourists, lies a tiny, Mexican beach town on the Costa Alegre, popular with families from Guadalajara. Here, visits to ATM machines must be strategically planned, self-taught Spanish might possibly get you by, and when you order Agua …


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Going Native

BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA— “Where you from?” the driver asks in Spanish after a few minutes in the air-conditioned cab. He’d picked me up on the corner near my apartment, sweating under the morning sun in my khakis and button-down dress shirt with the sleeves rolled-up to the elbow. He was running me to the university, but …


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Shower

I am mad, just mad, about the hummingbirds in our backyard. J. caught this little guy taking a shower in the sprinklers while perched on the laundry line. He zipped off, probably to go find a blow dryer to feather his hair.

At the Zoo

The Point Defiance Zoo sits on a hillside above Puget Sound. It’s almost like an amphitheater, when you stand at the top, there’s a stunning view towards Mount Rainier and across the water. The setting is grand, just grand, and if you go early on a Sunday morning like we did, there will be no …


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