• Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    A Walk At Alki, New Arrivals, A Pink Door, And More

    We ended today with a boat trip out to Blake Island’s Tillicum Village for the afternoon salmon bake and cultural show, and by then I was taking photos with the big Canon, not my iPhone. But we did a lot of Touron stuff in the morning and yesterday too, including: Bought a glass thingy from The Glasshouse Studio. They’re shipping it so we don’t have to worry about lugging it. Lunch at the Pink Door after exploring the Public Market, which always tickles me. It’s fun introducing new people to it – once you find it again. Here’s Shel and…

  • Dear Mom - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    So Far

    So far, we’ve Flown from Chicago to Seattle had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with boats explored the Seattle Underground with tourons and alleged rats hiked on a beautiful forested trail by a remote beach had delicious beers with friends had circus with bread, which is a little different than having bread and circuses. avoided Seafair, but not the Seafair Pirates driven to Idaho hung out with family walked on a rails to trails route been licked by dogs eaten huckleberry ice cream (me only) eaten Vienna Sausages (again me only) seen 2 deer seen innumerable ground squirrels and chipmunks driven…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Fish Flingers vs. PETA

    When I lived in Seattle, it was always fun to go down to Pike Place and watch tourists dodge flying salmon. The one guy that called out instructions like an air-traffic controller had a voice like ball bearings in a bucket. At work a few years ago, we threw plushy fish around after a team leader got ahold of the FiSH! corporate morale-boosting book. That whole idea of “play at work, work becomes play, be totally in the moment with your customer and throw a fish at them accurately” went away after that particular team leader or VP moved on.…

  • Moblog - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Golden Gardens Sunset

    Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Golden Gardens Sunset By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 May ’09, 10.31pm CDT PST UPDATE: When I lived in Seattle, I sometimes rode my bike or the bus out to Golden Gardens Park in the afternoon. It’s just a really nice place to spend some time. David and I walked along, smelling the smoke from a number of campfires on the beach (the parks department provides big iron fireboxes). It was the end of the Memorial Day weekend, but plenty of people were there to grill, picnic, chill, or even get married (there…