Blogs from Sedro Woolley, Washington, United States, North America

It's funny how things happen sometimes. Yesterday I logged on here to catch up on some travel blogs from my recent trips. Are there more important things I can be doing? Yeah, probably. But the travel blog was one of my favorite adventures and I love writing. There's no shame in doing something that gives you joy and causes no one any harm. While exploring the back-end features of travelblog.org (unfamiliar to me now after more than a decade away), I stumbled across the inbox of Private Messages. Convinced that I had never seen these messages before (about 40 of them), I spent several hours yesterday writing replies. Yeah, that was a pretty goofy thing to do. I wasn't able to get through them all in the day, and so I logged in again this morning ... read more

Being Myself I picked up a hitchiker Friday night on the way home from the bars. We didn't know each other--which is strange in this tight community--but I'd seen him at the Old Timers earlier in the night, and he was with some guys who I've known since I was a little kid. Bar hopping in Sedro. That was the night. My oldest friend, Matt Steinman, and I met up around 10 or so and wandered around the bars in town seeing what we'd see. At the Old Timers we saw a lot of great old friends and drank $1.25 cans of Schmidt. Then we wandered down to Cues & Brews and saw even more buddies. Old Timers was kind of wierd, it always is: watching a few of the same people who come there every ... read more