Away, with words. Travel and other misadventures in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Air Lines
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Point a camera at the sky and leave the shutter open for a while. Delicate patterns will appear like figure skaters' tracks across a fro...
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Sun to Seattle: It's Not You, It's Me.
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It's the official: We've broken up. In hindsight we should have seen it coming. For weeks now things had been cooling off bet...
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Gimme Shelter: Lodging and dislodging on Long Island
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Everything I knew about Long Island I'd learned from Billy Joel songs: Real-estate novelists dined in Italian restaurants and boys from...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Beware! Mars Not at All Like the Brochure
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To: TripAdvisor From: Mars Curiosity Based on glowing reviews posted earlier by members "Spirit" and "Opportunity" I...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The Four Seasons: Seattle's Cool
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Here in Seattle we like cool. Not the finger-snapping, head-bobbing, dark-sunglasses kind. The contemplative gray weather, subdued clothing...
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Nickeled and Dimed
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On July 18 the New York Times ran an article on the pros and cons of "cafeteria" pricing for coach airfares. You know, those be...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Rendezvous With a Shadow
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Hidden under a thick pack ice of clouds for much of the year, the Pacific Northwest might not seem the ideal place for amateur astronomy. We...
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