Day trip: Union, Wash.

Posted by in 31 Jan, 2011   

Earlier this month, The Boyfriend and I took a day trip to Hood Canal and the town of Union. I had read a short blurb about it in the Yahoo! Travel feature, America’s Prettiest Cities. Less than 2 hours (94 miles) from Seattle, Union is a very pretty town. Unfortunately, at this time of year, […]

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Zoolights

Posted by in 4 Jan, 2011   

Or should that be Zoolit, past tense? The Boyfriend and I attended Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium‘s Zoolights on closing night for this season. Zoolights is an annual event beginning around the last week of November and ending around the first weekend in January. As a longtime vegetarian/vegan for reasons related to animal welfare and […]

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Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad

Posted by in 28 Jul, 2009   

Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad, Elbe, WA (photos taken July 11).

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Burien: Land of a Cool Coffee Shop and a Naked Statue

Posted by in 2 Jul, 2009   

Cool Coffee Shop I read about the new Burien Press coffee shop a few weeks ago. Burien Press serves delicious Caffe Vita coffee, so I wanted to check them out … until I plugged my address and theirs into Yahoo Maps and found out they’re a 30-minute drive away. I can get delicious Caffe Vita […]

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A sunny Sunday in Arlington, WA

Posted by in 17 Feb, 2008   

The Boyfriend and I took a road trip to Arlington, about 46 miles north of Ballard (Seattle). It was a lovely drive of about an hour on a chilly, sunny Sunday. We meandered mostly around N. Olympic Ave. It had a very small town, bedroom community feel to it, although there’s more to Arlington than […]

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