Livin' Part of Life

Following Karen’s heartfelt post last night, I would like to start tonight with a few comments of my own. When you’re in your 40’s and find yourself single, all new people you meet bring a history with them. At the time Karen and I met, we had both been through a lot. Everybody has at… Read more

Dearest Gentle Reader, Bridgerton fans will appreciate my opening comment. For the rest of you, just know that I mean that with love. I started watching Bridgerton one year ago today, when I returned to my local American Red Cross donation center (Warzel) as a platelet donor. I had been a platelet donor for many… Read more

“Awe shit,” I said about 35 minutes into our drive this morning. “What??”, Karen replied. “The inner rear tire on the driver’s side is showing 23 pounds of pressure.” Yet again. We got up and out of the Mount St. Helens area relatively early this morning. We were looking forward to a short drive (less… Read more

I had some time today to think about how far away from home we are. 2,499 miles, to be exact. Forks WA took the prize for the furthest away from home at 2,576 miles. We won’t make much progress on the miles from home over the next few weeks, either. We made the conscious decision… Read more

May 18, 1980 was a seminal moment for us growing up. Everyone watched the news about the massive eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. Within days, much of the country witnessed the effects of the eruption first-hand as the jet stream carried the ash eastward. It has always fascinated me. This morning we said… Read more

Our amazing adventure continues. Do you get sick of hearing of one amazing day after another? Well, today is not an amazing day. In fact, it is quite ordinary. We woke to the sound of a very loud thunderstorm approaching. Well, I was awake while Daisy and Rick were sleeping. But I bound into action… Read more

There are times in this journey when we experience something so beyond the ordinary that I struggle with how to start. Today is one of those days. Today we were heading into our 30th National Park, Mount Rainier. Because of Karen’s due diligence, she knew that this was another park we needed to get into… Read more

Today we said goodbye to the wonderful Olympic National Park. We had time on our drive to talk about our “top 5” and we both agree that this one has qualified. It’s fun to discuss what makes it, and why. But to me, it doesn’t matter the ranking, just good to reminisce about our favorites.… Read more

Today we knew we needed an early start. We were headed to the Hoh Rainforest section of Olympic, probably the single most crowded part of the park. And even though it was after Labor Day, the limited parking available for RV’s meant we really needed to get moving. We were on the road early, and… Read more

How do you top a perfect day? You don’t. But you hope to follow it up with another great one. Olympic National Park covers over 900,000 acres, across several different geographical areas; we covered 3 of them yesterday on our very busy first day. Today, it was time to leave our campground in Sequim and… Read more