Aye yi yi! It’s been another one of those Speedy Gonzales kind of weeks. So this week, in an effort to make sure I have my post ready for y’all on time, it’s going to be all funny all the time. Well, hopefully funny. I’ll let you decide. Check out this 1929 image of Grand Central…
This past weekend the hubby and kids finally got to experience to a degree the camping I used to enjoy growing up here in Washington State. I’ve talked about it often, so now they’re convinced I wasn’t just spinning some incredible fairy tales about how awesome camping is here. Our camping choice for this past…
We’re still holding strong on no rain here in the Seattle area. It looked like it was thinking about raining late yesterday, but no such luck. We went camping over the weekend in spite of the burn ban – campfires are overrated, right? Well, OK, maybe not, but we decided that even if we couldn’t…
Camping in the Pacific Northwest is amazing – there are so many cool places to camp, with the mountains or ocean being less than a day’s drive to get there. For our first family camping adventure, we chose Alder Lake, at the base of Mount Rainier: Growing up here, our family always went camping during…
Growing up in the State of Washington, when you see something every day for years, you tend not to notice it much in day-to-day living. Until you’ve been gone for what seems like an eternity then return, you notice it like it was a new discovery. Case-in-point: Mt. Rainier. I’d forgotten, after being in Pennsylvania…
