When companies ask me if I’ll write up their travel/outdoors clothing, I pretty much put it through the same drill. I never write about the stuff at first blush because while it might be pretty out of the box, it’s got to hold up to my patented test cycle before I come to any conclusions. …
When you ride your bike from downtown to West Seattle, you share the road with train tracks and loaded semi trucks. There’s a fishing pier where you can watch the tugboats tie up and the freight shops coming and going. If you’re unlucky, you can end up on the wrong side of a train and …
It was gray and a bit blowy, but plenty of people filled the streets in Issaquah for the annual Salmon Days festival. Our uke club was invited to play for the second year in a row, six enthusiastic players (you see five on the stage, one of our guys had to run off) played a …
I got out of bed this morning with a real craving for nature. Maybe it was the golden cast of the fall light across our suburban neighborhood, maybe it was a hangover the bright lights of New York City, maybe it was the last three days spent blurry and wrapped in the gooey cellophane of …
10 billion plastic bottles go into landfill every year. 730 billion dollars were spent on tourism last year. 2 billion people will board an airplane next year. It’s possible to spend 1000 dollars a night on a hotel room while half the world’s population is living on 4 dollars a day. Those are just a …
There’s so much I want to say about my time at the World Saver’s Congress, including repeating the essential message of travel – that it makes us better citizens of the world, promotes understanding and empathy, teaches us about the humanity of our neighbors, and inspires us to make the planet an even more wonderful …