With a spare half hour downtown, I enjoyed a Pike Place IPA. The Pike Place Brewery sits underneath the Economy Market Atrium, to the south ...

In October, I made a Freedom of Information Act request of the Department of Homeland Security, to ask for records referencing me in DHS da...

Dick Bruna's illustrated Christmas story is read each year prior to my family's Christmas Eve dinner. (This year's dinner was h...

This is a fancy flask for lime ( calcium hydroxide ), seen at the Gold Museum in Bogota. Coca leaves are usually chewed with lime, as its b...

A few minutes earlier, the sunrise looked completely different. Sadly, I was queued on Montlake Blvd then. The resident bald eagle chose to...

VH-OEB is a Qantas 747-400 called Phillip Island. Here she is after landing at dawn into LAX, likely from either Melbourne (via Auckland) o...

Mt. Si manages to miss much of the snow of the Cascades due to geography; most moist air can find its way further eastward before being for...

Growing up involved numerous glorious trips to the beach. West coast beaches frequently offer a generous assortment of construction materia...

I love the US $2 bill . When a temporary Bing Cashback rate of 15% allowed the purchase on eBay of uncirculated and sequential notes for le...

The weekend after (US) Thanksgiving is the time to start arranging Christmas decorations. With a few strings handed down from my parents (w...

Time to scrape the ice off the car. This camellia in the front yard will have no trouble through the winter. However, the Norfolk Pine Chr...

Fernando Botero is a Columbian artist, notable for sculpting and painting fat people and animals. If you think that a sparrow must be by na...

Camp Pendleton is a Marine Corps base, stuck between the I5 along the Pacific ocean, and the coastal mountain range. It has a huge cache ...

In Cabo San Lucas, the beach between Playa del Solmar and Land's End has a few rocky parts, and is a joy to scramble around. I was disa...

I'll be flying this weekend, but fortunately not on this airframe. It's Boeing 747-121 serial number 001 , rusting away in a parkin...