Category Archives: Travel

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A Horse, a Dog, and a Miniature Cow Walk Into a Bar…

Okay, not really. But since I was just in Nebraska and those animals featured in my visit, I couldn’t resist.

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When Safety Trumps Desire

Remember how excited I was to go backpacking in Olympic National Park?

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First Beach

Sometimes simple is best. At least that’s what I think the namers of Washington’s First Beach were thinking when they came up with that moniker.

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Green Overload in the Hoh Rain Forest

Let’s start by getting all your jokes about the name out right now. I’ll go: If a tree falls in the rain forest, does a ho hear it? Ha ha! Hilarious!

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Slowing Down at Kalaloch Beach

Sam and I had been on the road a few weeks by the time we found the campground at Kalaloch Beach  (“clay-lock”) in Olympic National Park, Washington.

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Green and Blue Heaven in the Cascades

My favorite color combination – what, you don’t have one? – is green and blue. I realized this when I looked around my house the other day and saw those colors featured in almost every room.

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John Day Painted Hills Unit

I titled the post this because a) it’s what the national monument is called, and b) it sounds like  jibberish. As if I, apropos of nothing, announced, “Millard Fillmore Batik Scarf Squadron.”

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The Deepest Lake in the U.S., or How I Was Converted

I don’t usually get too excited about lakes.

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Sequoia National Park

The first chunk of this last Scamp was clouded with smoke from all the wildfires in the West. The worst was at Sequoia National Park.

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Cape Flattery

Cape Flattery in Washington state is not, in fact, a place to go when you’re feeling insecure and need some praise.

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