Monthly Archives August 2007

made it to toronto!

Well, I've actually been here since Friday night. But ya know. Lots of unpacking going on and no blogging. The last two days of the road trip took us from Fairmont, Minnesota to Benton Harbor, Michigan and then from there on to Toronto. It was pretty uneventful and there were really no interesting [...] Read More…

day 3 of road tripping

We hit up Mount Rushmore in the morning outside Rapid City, South Dakota: Along the flat, monotonous drive through South Dakota we ran into a town called Wall that consisted of nothing but a giant drugstore that wasn't really a drugstore. They had western wear (I was really tempted to get a cowboy hat), buffalo [...] Read More…

2 days of road tripping

After a teary goodbye in Seattle on Monday morning, my brother and I set out for Toronto on our cross-continent road trip. It was hard to get excited about leaving Seattle, but so far we've had a lot of fun on our road trip. So far we've covered almost 1200 miles from Seattle [...] Read More…

packing and a new globe

Rob and I always pass by this awesome vintage store on Olive St and it's always closed. Last week it was open for the first time that we've seen so we stopped in and found a cute old couple selling all sorts of excellent treasures. I've been looking for an old globe for [...] Read More…

olympic peninsula

I just got back from an amazing trip out to the Olympic Peninsula. Incredible. I could have spent at least another week out there. It's kind of like an immense oasis across Puget Sound -- parts of the peninsula felt so isolated that it seemed like I was on a different planet. We [...] Read More…