God help me, I hate shopping malls. But I needed new clothes, I have been wanting to learn what all the fuss over H&M is about, and sometimes, there is nothing for it but cross a giant swath of asphalt and dive into the belly of the suburban consumer beast. Our biggest nearby mall is …
Connor Layne has just graduated from high school and is getting married to his sweetheart. When he finds out that his bride to be has dallied with his best man, he makes a scene at the wedding and books the next flight out, ending up in Nicaragua. There he loses his money, his shirt (literally) …
We were delighted to host Gunther, Anna, Vanessa, and Alex from Austria at our place last month. They used the Nerd’s Eye View West Coast Headquarters as a base camp for the expedition around the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain States. Today we received this this photo of them with all their gear on our …
I had a funny little moment during the introductions portion of our travel panel at the Adventures in Travel Expo. Our moderator, the articulate and well-traveled Beth Whitman of Wanderlust and Lipstick was running down the bios for the panel. These were adventurers’ histories – compact stories of women who have made travel an essential …
I used to have a little blurb on my “about” page that read something like this: Freelance technical writing pays my bills. In between gigs, I submit stories to travel, culture and outdoors publications in hopes that one day, Conde Nast will call. Today was that day. This morning, at about 9am, Conde Nast called. …
The Burien Firefighters were holding an open house when we passed through which is why we parked the car, got a seat on the curb, and watched them slice up a car as though were a Thanksgiving turkey. They were demonstrating a simulated rescue on an 80’s Mazda two door hatchback – they popped off …