Archive for the ‘US Travel’ Category

120 bucks

I know it’s not right, but I love my car. From Chicago all the way to Seattle, the trip only cost about $120 – wow! It’s a Prius and gets about 45 miles per gallon, but I have to say that I got lucky because the price of gas went down right before my dad [...]


Rewind, Lakebay, WA

I was just looking a few blogs below which triggered a campfire memory. The day we were headed from Seattle to Lakebay, we stopped at the grocery store to pick up s’more fixn’s. I told Brian (Jodi was with us, too – we had gone to Pike Place Market that morning) that I wanted to [...]


A little sore.

On Monday night Larissa, I and her neighbor Amy, sweated our butts in Bikram yoga. It was a good class because it was small and the teacher corrected me on a few things I had been doing wrong. But the next day, I was feeling a little sore. I’ve done Bikram about once a week [...]


Coffee, coffee, coffee

I love coffee. I recently backed off from coffee because I would get a headache in Sunday morning yoga and realized how addicted I’d become. I only had one large cup a day, so I couldn’t believe how it affected me. The past few weeks, I’ve been drinking tea. But in Seattle (and Lakebay), I [...]


Lakebay, Washington

Last weekend, Larissa, Brian, Jodi and I headed to Lakebay, just south of Seattle, to hang out at my Aunt Karen and Uncle Dave’s cabin. It’s on the Puget Sound, surrounded by little islands covered in evergreens and other green green green stuff. We went blackberry picking one day, they grow wild and tasted delicious. [...]