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Traveler’s Utopia

Turns out there are a LOT of trees in Washington. Here's the view from our campsite one morning outside of Seattle.
It was just over two years ago that I was spending many lonely nights and long wintry drives to work on the phone with my mom. She, like myself, was going through her first full on mountain town winter. We moped and moaned about how cold it was, how scary the driving felt, but mostly about the never-ending annoyance that kept falling from the sky, which, irritatingly, most people in the valleys we lived in happily rejoiced about. (more…)

July 14, 2012
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Weekday Surrender

I remember an illustration from the New Yorker that used to hang on my dad’s living room wall when I was a teenager. It was a map of the USA from a New Yorker’s point of view, where the descriptions of all the other various states were some kind of generalized overview from someone who’d never been there and obviously didn’t care to go. (more…)

June 22, 2012
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