Fish Wednesday, Island Style

Fess up. Which one of you told me to grill mangoes? You are an evil genius. Now, I’m not sure I’m going to want to eat anything else. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, grilled mangoes. Good lord. Whew. You can scoop the mango out of the skin with a spoon after you’ve grilled it, and the places …


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A Travelblogging Community

You’d have to be blogging from underneath a rock (or be blissfully disconnected from blognews) to not know that BlogHer was last weekend. If you’re a regular reader of Nerd’s Eye View, you know that I didn’t go. The first reason I didn’t go was because I felt like the offerings were insufficiently enticing for …


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Busy

I don’t make a lot of money from the ads you see here on Nerd’s Eye View, enough to keep me in web hosting and the occasional side purchase – Nerd’s Eye View t-shirts, postcards or photo books, that sort of thing. I did buy a fancy camera last year before we went to Hawaii …


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Railways and Road Food in the Cascade Foothills

Snoqualamie is about half an hour’s drive east of Seattle – it’s right where the Cascade Range starts draw a line between the Puget Sound area and the rest of Washington State. Snoqaulamie, sadly, has been overrun with McMansions and shopping malls and wide parkways that go from one cookie cutter housing development to the …


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Hawaii Slide Show

Someone asked me recently about photo tools and I remembered the oh so fun to play with Animoto. Off I went to make a new slideshow. Let’s go back to Hawaii, okay?

Intertribal Canoe Journey at Alki Beach

“It’s a cedar bark hat” he said. “We’re making the Canoe Journey. We’re going to Suquamish next. It’s 30 miles.” His name was Joe, he was a big guy, and friendly, and told us they’d had a great day, the weather was good and the tides were on their side. I was feeling lucky to …


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