Posted in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming on May 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
Plans for an ambitious road trip around the American West late this summer are coming together. The impetus for this trip is that my cousin is getting married in Albuquerque at the end of August. Given that there doesn’t seem to be a direct flight from Seattle and tickets are relatively expensive (especially compared to [...]
Posted in Washington on Dec 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
We don’t often get snow in Seattle, let alone tons and tons of snow. But this winter it came down hard! We had a very white Christmas with several inches of snow, jamming up roads for days. We got enough powder that I could snowboard down the hills in our neighborhood:
We ventured out to [...]
Posted in Oregon on Apr 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’m an unlikely volunteer for the Democratic party. I was a Nader voter and a Deaniac, and often find myself to the left of the mainstream Democratic agenda. I did throw a Rock The Vote registration and benefit show with the help of some laptop dj friends during the 2004 Presidential election, but [...]
Posted in Tibet, Washington on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s probably obvious from our posts about Tibet that Kim and I were both profoundly impacted by the landscape, people and culture we experienced on our journey through the Himalayas. What may not be as obvious is that we’ve long had a fascination with Tibet for years before we went, of course influencing our [...]
Posted in Washington on Feb 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
For the past several years we’ve been heading up to Whistler in Vancouver, B.C. to go skiing/snowboarding at one of the best mountains in North America. It’s almost always been worth it (well, except for the year I bought a 5 day Edge Pass and after 2 days of use they had the worst [...]