UMTravels

Greetings from Birch Bay, outside Blaine, Washington on the beautiful (at the moment) Puget Sound. I finally got to listen to this 2-CD travelogue from the State of Washington with history lessons tied to mileage posts on I-5. Technically, it is call the Interstate 5 Heritage Tour: Seattle to Blaine (U.S.A.-Canada Border).�I have this because [...]

Looks like a good move to South Park as far as property values go. Look at the graphic splashed on today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Gee, a gondola a couple of blocks from my house up the hill to White Center would be lovely, as would a farmers market two blocks north. Now, if I can only [...]

Back in Seattle before noon with a van stuffed to the gills. Even the lift hanging off the receiver hitch is FULL! That would be the wood chipper. Between MoonSong’s trip last week, and mine yesterday, all the planter pots are safely back in the city. And looking nice on the back porch with it’s [...]

Bored and grumpy. I might as well be moving boxes. Then I’d be sweaty, bored, and grumpy. Plans are to catch the 3:30pm ferry to the island. Pack, drink, eat, sleep, leave. Probably not going to take the computer with me, so no late night update. Not even any pretty pictures for today. And the [...]

What’s a Boeing Classicyou ask? That would be the 737-300, -400, or -500. And they are getting ready to flood the market. Four airlines (United, USAir, Continental and Delta) have announced plans to drop their older, less-fuel-efficient airplanes. Prices will drop, and all the third-world airlines will be equipment that is only 15-20 years old [...]

For those who haven’t been to my lovely compound in South Park, it’s just off the intersection of Rose and Dallas — and boy is it dreary today. June rain brings low grade insanity if it doesn’t stop soon. I finally got around to posting Bob to CraigsList again: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/rvs/709184026.html Of course, it would be [...]

I don’t know what it is about the arrival of a wad on money that makes me want to spend it. Or maybe it’s that book that I’m reading. Last night and today’s musing on travel include the following: Long weekend in Palm Springs THIS weekend. United has an under $300 last minute fare WorldMark [...]

You have to wonder if it’s time to sell (my place in South Park) when then the New York Times claims…. Meanwhile the city around it was transformed by the dot-com boom, coffee culture and soaring real estate prices. Then in the late 1990s, displaced artists and artisans drawn by cheap rents started moving to [...]

Bye, bye, church. You were fun while you lasted — I think that you are going to a good new owners. They were married in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe (where I’ve seen MANY chamber music concerts) and have spent much time in Northern New Mexico exploring small adobe churches, of which Old Grace [...]

I found this little ditty in the introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2003 edited by Ian Frazier: I travel for all the usual reasons — to see new places, meet new people, have exciting experiences, etc. Also I travel just because I like to move. Motion simply for its own sake is often [...]