Category: Travel
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Pro-Tip Tuesday, Travel Edition:
the Power Outlets Hiding in Plain SightTravel Pro-Tip of the Day: my co-explorer and I often run into limited device-to-charging-cord ratios when we travel. Either one of us has packed a cord but the other overlooked it, or there appear to be too few compatible outlets wherever we’re staying. Besides using a plugged in laptop as a USB port for phone cables,…
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Snowshoeing & Other Winter Fun
in Denali National Park
Alaskan Adventures Part 1As I mentioned in part 0 of Alaska adventures, I flew in to Fairbanks around midnight. I got to sleep in the delightfully welcoming cabin (this one booked via VRBO) by about 3am, and yeah, it was in a city called North Pole. (!)* I loved staying at this cabin, and found the hosts helpful and responsive. This post may…
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What to Pack for an Alaskan Winter Adventure
Alaska – Part 0Where one can let the spirit go with joyous abandon, to sense the freedome of the wilderness. -Olaus Murie The first time I remember camping and absolutely loving it, I was twenty-one years old. My significant other and I had scored a great deal on tickets to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula from Minneapolis. As we landed and…
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MOHAI’s Edible City Exhibit – An Inclusive Exploration of Seattle’s Food Landscape
One overcast Friday, I ventured to the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) to check out their Edible City exhibit with my friend Sarah and her two kiddos. We wandered in from the parking lot feeling lucky to have found a spot (not free, max 4 hrs) to park and paid the $20 per adult.…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday: Make Creme Fraiche on the Road!
Looking for a dessert you can bring on the road to impress your friends? Here’s one I made in an AirBnB over a visit to my home state. It takes very few ingredients, little predictability in equipment, and you can bring it with some fruit for a dinner party:
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Mountain Monday: Snowshoe On Mount Rainier
Happy Lunar New Year! Any additional comments on lunar new year from me will be in some other post. I spent all my energy cleaning the house and hosting hot pot Saturday for it, no more juice left for an obligatory entry here for now. Instead, here’s one that started as a video and grew into…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
How to Fit More Gym Clothes in Your BagDid you make a resolution to get active and work out more this month? Are you feeling frazzled trying to stuff all your exercise clothes in a gym bag so you can work out before your commute home, but kind of favoring that “Old Bag Lady” (or Old Bag Gentleman) look in the process,…
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Oke Poke
Editor’s note: for the purposes of this post, all words that end with the suffix “oke” should be pronounced or more likely internally read as “okay”. Guest blog brought to you by marriage. Left coast living will bring you to Hawaii if you are of the means or the miles to get there. East coast…
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Run Away and Nurse Your Broken Heart in the Woods with a Hot Toddy
Sometimes, don’t you just want to set the world on fire? No? Well, maybe at least shake it around a little to tell it to behave itself better? Doesn’t the state of it just break your heart some days? Let’s go back to setting things on fire. I extra-think plenty on the things that are hugely…