The Pacific that is, not the excellent Led Zeppelin song.  Well, it could be any ocean for all I care.  Growing up a prairie boy, I’ve probably only seen the truly open water 20 times in my life, and it seems each time gets more memorable as my comprehension expands.  In fact, I happened to [...]

I’m not going to ruin the sheer terror of this post with one of the top 10 most beautiful scenes I’ve ever come across (see next post, The Ocean), and don’t get me wrong, I had probably the best 5 days in Seattle humanly possible, but stay away from Westport at night.  And don’t ever [...]

It didn’t take long to find the America a lot of people warned me about, and was certainly expecting myself.  Of course being aloof as always, I neglected to think an old logging town and old fishing town would be the ideal spots. Having departed Seattle with the goal of heading up the Olympic Peninsula [...]

When I told one of the people at the house I was crashing at about this nifty little New York deli I found in the U District, his immediate response was “a New York deli in Seattle?  I wouldn’t trust that.”  Fair enough, but having never been to New York and in my first big [...]

Having narrowly missed the 3 o’clock bus out of downtown Seattle, I decide to use my spare half hour to try my first Washington microbrew.  I’d already walked past the Six Arms on my way up to Capitol Hill and somehow missed the keyword “handcrafted” on their sign the first time.  Circling back and realizing [...]

It’s so much of a juxtaposition that it’s 75 oF and not a cloud in the sky as I write this, but that’s the first time I’ve seen Mr. Sun in over a week.  In Vancouver the clouds would generally burn off by about 1 PM, here if the day starts cloudy, it seems to [...]