By the time you are reading this, I’ll be somewhere between Detroit and Providence, RI.
This afternoon I’m off to sunny Maine for the better part of a week. I’ll be flying in to Providence, RI and driving up through Portland, visiting my cousin and her boyfriend for dinner and crashing there Saturday evening. [...]
Honestly - can’t we find a way to make international flights “safer” without supplementing the ticket price with a 50% tax? Granted that this is a discounted fare from a discount, internet travel agency - but even were the fare higher, say $1,000 each, the tax would still amount to some 25%. Does it [...]
This is from the first day out, if I’m not mistaken - there had been obvious snowmelt revealing the vast amount of igneous rock just beneath the surface. The snow was surprisingly fast for springtime, in the morning - although by the afternoon it was nearly unrideable. The bartender referred to such conditions [...]
Check out my flickr account for pictures of our rafting tour on the White Salmon, in Washington State, just North of the Oregon border, Saturday, May 26. In the picture below, I’m completely engulfed by the raging river.
