On Sunday, I got back from a twelve day, eleven night driving, hiking, and backpacking trek through Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks. Over the course of the trip, we drove about 2,000 miles, backpacked 55 miles, spent ten straight nights in tents, and took maybe four showers. We ate enough granola bars and [...]
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Montana, Wyoming, and Everywhere In Between
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Glacier National Park, Photos, Road Trip, Yellowstone National Park on September 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A Love Poem to Glacier National Park
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Glacier National Park, Photos, Poetry on September 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’re in the midst of our 11 day trek through Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks. Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to get photos off my camera until I get back to Seattle, and can’t organize my thoughts well enough yet for a proper blog post. So in lieu of cool photos or [...]
Exploring Mt. Baker
Posted in Travel, tagged Hiking, Mt. Baker, Seattle on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mt. Baker is an 11,000-foot mountain that lies about 90 miles north of Seattle, and is frequently visible from the city on clear days. Its snow-covered visage is almost as much a part of the local Seattle scenery at its more famous relative to the south, Mt. Rainier. So, in my continued effort to see [...]
Halcyon Dragon*Con Days (or Was That “Daze”)
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Photos on September 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to believe this was my third year at Con. I can distinctly remember the night over two years ago, when I was talking with some friends about this awesome-sounding thing called Dragon*Con, and decided to drive down to Atlanta pretty much on a whim and check it out. Since then, it’s been a [...]
What Happens in Reno, Gets Blogged
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, Networking, WorldCon on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I went to the World Science Fiction Convention, aka WorldCon, in Reno, Nevada. Most cons are held each year at the same venue in the same city, but WorldCon moves to a new city each year. It’s a bit like the Olympics, in that groups from potential host cities put together bids, which [...]
Prepping for WorldCon
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Novel, WorldCon on August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow morning I catch a plane from Seattle to Reno for the World Science Fiction Convention– four days of soaking up wisdom from professional writers and editors, meeting lots of cool people, and in general having fun and reveling in pure geekery. I spent some time going through the program, marking off stuff I’d particularly [...]
On the Road Again: Driving the Cascade Loop
Posted in Travel, tagged Cascades, Photos, Road Trip on August 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Despite having lived in the Pacific Northwest for almost ten months, surrounded by the oceans and Puget Sound, I haven’t gotten out of Seattle much. I’ve only been on one day hike, and one camping trip to the Olympic Peninsula. So since summer weather in this neck of the woods (by which I mean “sunny [...]
Camping on Lake Cushman
Posted in Travel, tagged Camping, Olympic Peninsula, Seattle on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After seven months living in Seattle, I finally went on a West Coast camping trip. One of my original motivations for moving out here had been the wide mix of outdoor destinations: from Puget Sound and the islands, to the Olympic Peninsula, to the Pacific Ocean, to the Cascade Range. But a long, wet winter [...]
Orycon Report: Portland, Panels, and Puns
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, Geek, Panels on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This weekend I drove about 3 hours south to Portland to attend Orycon, a small-ish science fiction con of around 2,000 people. It felt like a good-sized con, although I’ve come to realize that what makes a con feel “big” or “small” is not so much the number of attendees, but the ratio between the [...]
Road Trip Day 11: Mapless Near Seattle
Posted in Life, Travel, tagged Road Trip, Seattle on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Early in the afternoon of Day 11, I finally arrived in Seattle. It was a gray, overcast day, the kind for which Seattle is famous– although it wasn’t actually raining. The final two hundred miles was uneventful, except for the part where I lost the directions I had written down (there were a few zigs [...]
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