On Writing: Ten Dollars Worth of Crazy

I spent about an hour on Sunday morning trying to calculate what kind of travel experience I could have for ten dollars. I figured I could take the bus downtown, get a drip coffee and maybe a cookie, and then, take the bus back again. I could drive to Tacoma and back in my car …


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Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

I was saddened to read about the death of ‘Masa’ Murakami in yesterday’s Seattle Times. The Murakami family ran the Higo general store on Jackson Street in the neighborhood that used to be called Nihonmachi, or Japan Town. Before Higo became the design conscious place it is today, it was a complete hodge podge of …


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Review & Giveaway: Westport Weekend

Disclaimer: Our stay at Vacations by the Sea and our dinner at the Half Moon Bay Bar & Grill were comped.

I did not think that I was stressed out, but nothing will help a person unwind quite so fast as a view of the ocean. While I am very much a land creature — I get seasick — I love the ocean with my whole heart. I love the way it smells, I love watching the surf, I love it when a beach is covered in thick white fog and when the sand is so hot it bakes you completely when you stretch out on it. I’m crazy for the coast and think the Pacific the grandest of sights. As much as I love living on Puget Sound, I still dream that one day I will live where I can walk to the Pacific and stand on the edge of that great vast water that reaches out all the way across the globe.

Westport Winter Sunset


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Coconut Humu

So, um, yeah, I’m in this ukulele group. And you could come see us play and help raise money for a Good Cause. Get your tickets here.

Tell Me a Story @ TBEX 2010

TBEX is the Travelblog Exchange, a conference for travelbloggers. It’s in year two and this year, I’m co-hosting the community keynote with Mike Barish. 1. At a guest house in the Austrian Alps, I met an old farmer who sat out WWII because he was captured by American soldiers his first day in uniform. He …


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Crabby

“I fished crab until last year, I got injured, my eye,” says the muddy guy at the turnout above the beach. “But hey, go down to the pier and wait for the boats to come in. You’ll get a whole crab for six — maybe eight bucks from those guys.” He points at a boat …


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