Jerry and I are occurring trip for every week (nicely, I say “trip”, however we’re actually simply caring for my sister’s canines at her home in Rockford, Illinois. This would be the longest we have been away since 2014 after we took a household trip to Punta Cana!
To actually take a break from actuality, I’ll do one thing slightly completely different this week. I’ve had a each day publish streak going since January 1, 2020, and I actually do not wish to break that! So, I believed it is perhaps enjoyable to do a journey theme for every day and share some footage from completely different journeys I have been on. Every day can have a theme based mostly on the situation of the journey.
I am making ready these posts forward of time so I will not need to even open my pc whereas I am gone. (I can nonetheless approve feedback from my telephone, although.) And hopefully once I get house, I will have some great things to share 🙂Â
These footage are from a number of completely different journeys to Portland and Seattle and I’ve about 10 billion of them on my pc, however it could take me all day to choose and select. So here’s a (considerably random) choice, in no specific order…
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Reader meet-up! |
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Timbers sport |
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The token PDX carpet picture |
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One other reader meet-up! |
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My pal Allison who lived subsequent door to me in excessive school–she lives in Seattle now. |
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This was a wall of CHEWING GUM. Severely! |
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How superb is that this image? I took it from the airplane! |
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Fairly presumably my favourite image of me ever. |
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This antelope squirrel stole my coronary heart <3 |
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Dan, Laurel, me, and Jerry (Laurel was a weblog reader and we’re nonetheless buddies) |
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Tasting “squeaky cheese” at Public Market in Seattle |
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One other meet-up with Allison |
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Jerry and Dan |
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Attempting Salt & Straw (sadly, I believed it was overrated) |
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“You may have died of dysentery” |
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I by no means drink Slurpees however this one was the BEST EVER |
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Ape Cave – one of many scariest locations on earth! |
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With out a headlamp or flashlight, it is pitch black–you cannot even see your hand in entrance of your face |
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After my large 10K |
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Laurel took me on a cupcake tour of Seattle and we ended with these lava muffins |
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I slipped on this rock and ALMOST slid proper into the water! |
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Wild cows–I by no means even knew they existed! |