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A Jaunt from Sorrento to the Amalfi Coast in Italy
I was becoming pleasantly accustomed to the boxy, pastel houses stacked on the hillside.
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Pelorus Jack
The story of an amazing dolphin.
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Exploring Washington State: Vashon Island
Just a 15 minute ferry ride from West Seattle across beautiful Puget Sound takes you to a different world.
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Helpless Stress
Sooner or later, every train engineer will have someone step in front of his or her train as a way to permanently solve a temporary problem. That must be a heartbreaking experience. You want to stop, but you know you can’t. I suspect that all you can really do is close your eyes, swallow really…
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Bike-Share Stupidity
It happened again the other day. Some fool left a bike-share bike on the movable portion of my drawbridge. Fortunately, I’m used to looking out for this, because if I were to open the bridge with a bike on it, it could fall down and take out a pedestrian, or even worse, my parked car.…
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Exploring Washington State – Port Townsend
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, I had the privilege of tagging along with a friend to visit her parents in Port Townsend, Washington, and it was a fantastic two days indeed. Port Townsend is a charming, artsy, quirky, historic Victorian Seaport that is best reached by ferry. Whenever I ride a ferry I…
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Looking Forward
Sometime in the next few days I’ll be taking a ferry from Seattle out to Port Townsend, and I’m so excited. I’ve been itching to explore the surrounding area for quite some time, and Port Townsend is said to be an artsy little Victorian seaport. One of my coworkers even says there’s a beach near…