We're heading out for Alumafandango pretty soon (maybe this weekend) and so far I've got a rough plan for our route to Denver. We plan to take a fastish route to get to Colorado so we can spend a few days in and around Silverton and Ouray (and the Million…
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This weekend we're in Florence for my Aunt Zelma's 100th birthday party. We left Portland and it was 102 degrees. We got to Newport and it was 59 degrees. It was sunny and gorgeous, but there was also this thick, fast-moving low bank of fog hugging the coast that was…
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This afternoon we hopped on the 1:15pm Coupeville-Port Townsend ferry and headed to Port Townsend for a couple hours. The photo above is of the Fort Casey campground (with the helpful arrow to show you where we are). The ferry to Port Townsend is $3.20 per person one-way walk-on, and…
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For our lunch break today we decided to do a little island exploring. First we drove back up to Oak Harbor and picked up some fresh Penn Cove mussels for dinner tonight (and some salmon for dinner tomorrow night), and a few clams I'll toss in with the mussels for…
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Do you guys all know about Alumafandango? Are you going? We are! Alumafandango is brought to you by the same team that produces Alumapalooza, and will be held at Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado from August 21-26. I hear there are only 40 spots left so if you want…
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Thought I'd post a few of the oh-so-arty bridge photos I took with my iPhone during our travels this past month.
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We had such a great time this weekend at Stub Stewart State Park with Tiffany and Deke, Leigh and Brian, and The Mehallicks (Lisa, George, Lily, and Maya). The weather was really lovely when we first got here on Wednesday. We hiked and biked and it was beautiful. As soon…
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This sign was on the trail we took out to the beach and we both thought it was a little funny. Whoa!! Careful! This is a curvy trail! (I'm guessing this might be for horses? But It still made us laugh.) Before leaving Bullards Beach (checkout time there is 1pm!)…
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We took the trail from the campground out to the beach and then walked the beach quite a ways down toward the lighthouse this evening. Now we're getting ready to have a martini, sear some scallops, and roast some asparagus for dinner. This is a very large piece of petrified…
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We took a lunchtime drive today up to Charleston, OR. It's a small little fishing town on Coos Bay, and we'd done a little research and decided to pick up some fresh scallops, fish, and Dungeness crab at a spot down at Dock D called Fishermen's Wharf: What a great…
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