Monthly Archives: October 2011

I could tell you but everyone already knows how hard it is for the unemployed to find a family-supporting job these days in 2011 America — be it high school kid, college grad or laid-off veteran employee. I could say … Continue reading →

There are five possible roads to Yellowstone National Park. They enter from all four points of the compass and they’re all pretty nice. But the hands-down nicest of them all, locals here in Red Lodge, Montana say, is the spectacular … Continue reading →

“The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”  — Gretel Ehrlich, from The Solace … Continue reading →

Special reports | Seattle Times Newspaper. Excellent report on the rise and fall of the two Elwha River dams by the Seattle Times team. After clicking on the link above, scroll sideways to “The Experiment” section and click next on … Continue reading →

A few notes from our late-September shakedown cruise, a 600-mile-long counter-clockwise ring around the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington, beginning in Tacoma, ending at Cape Disappointment, the terminus of the Lewis & Clark Trail at the sea-mouth of the Columbia River. … Continue reading →