Month: November 2015

No Time Like the Present

VIEW FROM THE DARKEST SPOT IN AMERICA
Tepui Tent under the Milky Way

Perhaps I should more accurately say… no time BUT the present. We live in eternity… the eternal present. We have never, nor will we ever experience anything other than the present. I’m pretty sure that we come equipped with that understanding. More…

Change

Waterfall in the Cascades

My Grandfather, whose been dead for nearly thirty years now, grew up before the automobile. Being a farmer and appreciating the benefit of the extra horsepower he eventually made peace with the internal combustion engine… but it was an uneasy alliance. He believed that the invention of the car made the destination more important than the journey. More…

An Adventure Inside of an Adventure

SUNSET OVER CHAIN LAKES
Chain Lakes Washington

Roaming the southern Cascades we crossed paths with our old friend Mark who we spent the better part of May travelling with. And this turned out to be highly fortuitous for us because almost exactly as we ran into him the alternator on my truck went kaput. More…

The Cascades

IN THE RAIN FOREST
Rain forest in the Cascades

Every forest that we’ve been to has been so different and the Cascades are no exception. We’ve been through soooo many dry forests in the last few months that it was great to be immersed in the lushness of this place… although the locals kept telling us how dry it was.