Travel adventures
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you know that we’ve just come through more than 10 days of vile weather. Seattle has been at it’s absolute worst for the last two weeks, rainy, windy, and just above freezing. The sun seems to never come out. Yesterday, at about 3:30, I put on my big …
I’ve just come from playing the ukulele at a party for Austria National Day. The party was at the German Club here in Seattle. The folks there were mostly older, in their 60s or so. They LOVED us, which is funny because I’m not sure we were any good. (Except for our yodeler, he was …
Don’t tell me I can’t learn from my mistakes. I absolutely can. And now, so can you. If you’re off to the Olympic peninsula and only have three days, take, please, my advice and do the following. Go ahead and do exactly what we did and book yourself a place at Ocean Shores Resort. I …
On June 21st, the first day of summer, we loaded the car with camping gear, a ukulele, and Lumpy the Sock Monkey. We pointed the car north and went to look at parts of Canada. The weather was bad, the campground neighbors were loud, and the Rockies were awash in busloads of tourists. Did we …
Our friend Knox told us to go to Drumheller and because it would Not Stop Raining, we did. The week before, Drumheller had suffered from terrible flooding, the kind where all the news is about the flooding. We know this not because anyone told us, but because we were sick and tired of the rain, …
Okay, two brief stories: 1. At Lake Louise, we met the charming and garrulous Neil Cox. Neil plays the Alpenhorn, you know, that big long thing you see the guys in lederhosen wearing in videos of, oh, say, Austria. We had a nice long chat with Neil about where he got his horn (the first …