Guest Post: Is Hawaii Worth It?

Imagine yourself in Hawaii. Images of sun, surf and sand will arise and a sigh may escape your lips – even if you have never visited the islands. But these same images can connect with coastal areas of the U.S. mainland, as well as other countries and tropical islands. Is Hawaii any different? If not, …


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Guest Post: Dog at Chatuchak Market

This dog was dressed to the nines and ready to go shopping at the weekend market to end all markets, the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, Thailand.  Its owner was an equally interesting character — a local “ladyboy” wearing high heels, a mini skirt and white face makeup. — Heather Knight Heather Knight is a Portland, …


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Guest Post: The Wroth at Neist Point

Towering basalt cliffs, striated and turfed, punished by the wroth sea and roaring hysterics of the wind, stand in monolithic acceptance of the rain pounding from the anvil sky. Beneath the glacial waters of the Little Minch and through the Sea of the Hebrides, the causeway of the giants extends southwest to County Antrim. Birds …


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Clean House, Time for Guests

With everything shiny and new around here, I thought it a good time to invite you over. Bring something to share. Seriously. Show up in my in-box, with a good story, there’s nothing else to it.

2011 in Review

Whoa, did that happen? That was freaking amazing! Seriously, who gets to have a month like that, not to mention a whole YEAR? I didn’t earn a lot of money, but wow, I am dizzy with the wonder of what I did do.

Everyone’s a Critic, Especially Me

I made Some Random Dude mad at me last week. I posted a picture of what I thought was a travesty of an opening line from a travel piece in the Register-Guard, a paper out of Eugene, Oregon. The photo included the writer’s byline and the name of the paper.

Said line? “Recent reports of shark attacks on surfers not withstanding, there’s nothing like a visit to the coastal enclave of Seaside to rekindle one’s imagination of an early 20th century Pacific resort.”