In the late 1980’s I climbed with Kevin Wood, a person of unique personality. He suggested we climb the Northeast Spur of the North Peak of Mt. Index which he had climbed a couple of years prior. It was a late hot summer weekend. We arrived at the Lake Serene trailhead Saturday morning and hiked […]

Took a short trip to Sonoma valley for a last grasp at summer before the winter rains of Seattle. We arrived by late afternoon and with a longer than expected stop at the Russian River Brewery in Santa Rosa settled in at a lovely vacation cottage for the weekend. We had arranged for a hot […]

Last month we took a short trip to NYC to celebrate a friend’s birthday. With the use of Uber car service we were taken from the Newark airport and delivered safely to Manhattan and our friends apartment only a couple of blocks from Central Park. They had moved from the Jersey Shore within the last […]

I took a short road trip to north central Washington to open the family cabin for the summer a couple of weeks ago. I invited two friends to join me for the six hour one way drive from Seattle to Lake Curlew. My father and step mother purchased the land and built a small two […]

My father owned a small farm in northwestern Nebraska near the town of Hemingford. Our family lived and worked the place for about four years and during that time I attended a small rural school from first thru fourth grades. The school consisted of one teacher and 14 children (grades first thru sixth)  from the […]