I think I found the man who stole my dreams. Not all of my dreams, but the one where I use more renewable resources and live a good life. The man in questions is Todd Shuster, owner and skipper of Gato Verde Adventure Sailing in Bellingham, Washington. Even the company name appeals to me. Adventure. [...]
My next trip will take me to the far reaches of the middle of the country. Colorado, to be exact. It’s where the mountains end and the flatness begins. But on those last few mountains I hear there’s some great rock climbing so I’m heading to Boulder to find out for myself. The people I’m [...]
Are you heading to Africa for safari and want some photography tips? This article helps get you started in the right direction.
Some of us write for newspapers. Some write for magazines. Others pen guidebooks or ghost write. Almost all of us have a blog of some sort or write for one. All of us love the Puget Sound and Seattle. All of us call this area home. All of us have a passion for writing and [...]
I have the best daughter on the planet. This says nothing disparaging against your kids, I’m sure they’re grand, huggable wondermuffins in your eye but I have empirical proof why my daughter is the best. Well, I actually have many reasons, but this being a travel blog of sorts, I wanted to focus for a [...]
Let’s say you went to Travel Blog Exchange 2010 and got one of the fancy Bootsnall Moleskine notebooks. They are red, they are fancy, and they look like this: And if you weren’t at TBEX’10, you can still get a Moleskine on BootsnAll’s Facebook page. It’s really simple, just leave a comment for a [...]
And the winner of the Makalu Wear organic yak trekking shirt is…… comment #14 from my friend Jeremy Kuno. I used It just goes to prove, even a snarky comment is better than none at all when it comes to winning a shirt! I’d like to thank all who took a moment to leave a [...]
Since my last post on Summer Plans just two weeks ago, some new and exciting additions have been, uhhhh….added! A couple of press trips to sunny locations (even though the weather around Seattle is really trying to make up for most of June) and some rock climbing. June and Twitter saw the creation of the [...]
Here’s your chance to win a fine, fine organic shirt from MakaluWear. You see, MakaluWear is run by a couple of folks from Nepal (Makalu is one of the 8000m+ mountains in the Himalayas, East of Everest) and I stumbled on their shirts one day while searching the grand internet. I then came to find [...]
