Rovinj is the medieval storybook port town of your dreams. Shiny white stone streets spiraling up the hillsides in odd, often impossible-seeming pathways, claustrophobic lanes crisscrossed with drying laundry like Tibetan prayer flags waving in the cool evening air. All…
Day 16 – Split, Croatia
October 21, 2019
My highschool social studies project predicted the Yugoslavian civil war (known here as the Homeland War – Domovinski rat). And my college roommate was an ethnic Albanian from what is now Kosovo. He left home in the early 90’s at…
Day 13 – Barcelona, Spain
October 15, 2019
I’ve been here before. The tiny bars lining the pedestrian allies of the gothic quarter off La Rambla were a revelation. The food, the people, enchanting. And did I mention the food? Seven years ago Katy and I were…
Joshua Tree and the Yucca Men: Exploring the Mojave Desert
April 8, 2019
I honestly didn’t know what to expect, setting out on the several hour drive into the Mojave desert from LA. My only real association with Joshua Tree was the U2 album of the same name (the cover of which…
Melbourne: diverse, affordable, laid back, great food for cheap.
November 16, 2018
I really felt at home in Melbourne. It’s the kind of place I could easily see myself living long term. It’s everything that you could want in a city: diverse, affordable, laid back, young, inclusive, a great food scene…
The Willows Restaurant – Lummi Island – November 4, 2018
November 8, 2018
The experience of a place. At a certain moment. At a certain time. To celebrate the objects around you and see their perfection. Their uniqueness. Their connection to the land and its mechanisms of timeless balance. Is to understand…
Sydney, Australia. The down under’s big city.
October 18, 2018
We only had a few days in Sydney but I feel like we got to explore the Central Business District fairly well. Sydney has the same broad multiculturalism that we enjoyed in Melbourne but the city is decidedly larger,…
Hiking the Ozette Triangle: the rugged beauty of pacific northwest beaches.
August 9, 2018
Before I moved to Seattle, I would see pictures of pacific northwest beaches and swoon with how magical and amazing they looked. Rocky shores with tiny islands peppered out into the ocean rich with trees and dense moss. This…
The UK countryside. Wareham, Corfe Castle, tanks, and monkeys.
August 1, 2018
When we asked Katy’s step-son Brendan if he could choose any place in the world to visit, being a Russian history major, and barring Moscow, he chose the Bovington Tank Museum, the largest tank museum in Europe. Bovington is…
The Oregon Country Fair. If I knew the way I would take you home.
July 19, 2018
[All photos from the 2018 Oregon Country Fair] The first time I went to the Oregon Country Fair was in 1997. I was living in a car, traveling the country. The thought was we would just keep driving…