I have to admit it. I've gone totally geek over this North Olympic Peninsula tale. To follow the story, it helps to visualize how Lake...

Last post I gushed about how we finally stood on Uhuru, the summit of Kibo, Kilimanjaro's highest of her three peaks. We stood exhausted...

The fat, round crest of Kibo, tallest and largest of Kilimanjaro’s three volcanic cones, the highest mountain on the African continent,...

This is now our home. When we first saw this piece of land 10 years ago, a simple walk from the overgrown tire tracks where we had to...

The sad truth is that we had to take down trees to carve the driveway, put in the septic, and build the house here at that lake. The...

There was the land, then there was the foundation, and then...this. It's a framed-up house, like magic. But...as you might imagine, what...

Let's start with this, Sharlene and I had, still have, no real idea what's involved with building the foundation for a house; especially...

It's time that the folks who made our new home happen get some love. So, here with the first post about them and what they've created for...

Last post ended with looking forward to climbing the Little River trail to Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge once the snow melts...

Lake Angeles is one of first places locals here on the Northern Olympic Peninsula mention when you ask about favorite hikes. This little...

For the last year we have been hearing about the Seven Lakes Basin/High Divide Loop. Foiled in our attempts to get national park camping...

Shar and I have largely spent these last few months, the "time of the covids," hunkered down here in The Farmhouse, a little west of Port...

The world seems to be losing its collective mind. Even out here in Port Angeles, in a county where there has yet to be a single confirmed...

Booradley, our mutt rescue from Louisiana, is probably happiest when he's doing this; quietly hanging around somewhere close to Shar. He...

So, I went down to Tulsa a week ago to do the first lawyer thing I've done since the end of June. There is a program down there, Still...

I hear, and take seriously, the horror stories about people retiring from all sorts of careers and just being lost; of swinging their...

This is Lake Sutherland, Clallam County, the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. And this is Lake Sutherland And this is Lake Sutherland And...