| February 17, 2017 | It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things. – Nicholas Sparks – The ocean has always been therapeutic for me, and I wasn’t really sure why. I just loosely associated feelings of relaxation with the beach, as my family always vacationed to […]
| February 2, 2017 | On October 1st, I finally found someone who was willing to drive the 6-hour trek to Crater Lake National Park. The 6 hours actually turned into 8 hours due to lack of map-following and enthusiastic lyric-singing. Luckily, the detour led us down roads that may not have been discovered if we […]
| January 29, 2017 | The second weekend of November 2016, I was ready to soak in some serious Pacific Northwest autumn. I’d been curious about the Columbia River Valley and, as cliché as Multnomah Falls seemed, I was ready to see what it was all about! I had been stalking photos of the falls […]
| January 27, 2017 | Contrary to what you may believe from my previous post, I did not spend all 48 hours in the Portland area eating donuts (though, if you read it, you’d know where I was getting my donuts from). Portland wasn’t really as “weird” as it claims to be. It actually seemed quite […]
| January 26, 2017 | Being that Portland was a mere 2 hours from Olympia, WA, I knew I had to journey there eventually. Once I got to talking to more people about the amazing donuts, book stores, and weird vibes, I made it a priority. I phoned a friend living in Oregon and we adventured […]