“Without risk, adventure is an empty word.” –William Sullivan, Listening for Coyote As I sit on my back porch in this amazingly gorgeous Portland fall weather — sunny, crisp, everything bright, trees turning all shades of brilliant — it’s hard to imagine that anything could possibly be better than this. …
Sometimes, when you make another plan to go somewhere exciting, the entire Columbia River Gorge catches on fire, and you have to re-evaluate. Thus it is that my much-anticipated bike-and-backpack around Mt Adams trip has become instead a Vancouver Island bike-and-train-and-ferry-(and, hopefully, still backpacking) trip. It took me a bit …
From tonight’s Eclipse Hate Rally set up by Portland’s Resistance: Tonight was an amazingly powerful show of peaceful solidarity. So thankful for everyone who put this on and everyone who showed up for it.
It was recently my birthday — well, within the last few weeks, which counts as recent with how little I’ve been writing here lately;) — and with my birthday comes a years-long ritual. (no, the ritual has nothing to do with eating huckleberries, though that is a definitely Pacific …
