Category: Travel and Other Adventures

I love going on adventures of all kinds.

  • Street fair

    YesterdayAfter our run we went to Portland for the Hawthorne Street Fair. (Apologies if anyone finds any of these photos offensive. I think they are funny.) There were people selling hilariously irreverent postcards and bags made out of old porn movie film.  I bought some funny postcards! And more serious books. I even shot some…

  • Total eclipse in the park

    Well not quite a total eclipse. Here in the Portland Oregon area we were at 99% totality. The library had a viewing party at a local park where we handed out viewers and had some other fun activities. People started lining up to get viewers at 8:00 am, when we arrived to set up. The…

  • Bigfoot festival

    Today the Mister and I went on an adventure to the first annual Bigfoot Festival in Troutdale, Oregon. It was my first experience at any kind of festival celebrating the paranormal. The most interesting thing about it were the people. As we waiting in line for the shuttle there were three very friendly women in…

  • Yesterday after running, the Mister and I went to the first annual Lowbrow Con in Milwaukie, Oregon. We got there really late in the day, about a half an hour before they closed the doors. They let us in free! Which was great because we had more money to give to the artists there. I…

  • Cape Lookout in a Yurt

    Saturday morning I get an email from my husband: “Cape lookout has campsites available for Sunday. We can get a regular campsite or we can get a yurt. They have one yurt available.” Me: “Let’s take the yurt!” It’s been years since we’ve been to Cape Lookout on the Oregon Coast. In fact, the last…