Mt Rainier never gets old.  She's a steady presence to those living near Seattle, and is both shapely and prominent. Most of my vi...

A NOAA scientist holds up the skull of a Crabeater Seal , part of the collection they keep at their Western Regional Center.  NOAA held ...

Pontoon T of the new SR520 floating bridge heads back out of Lake Washington through the Ballard Locks to get repaired at a drydock in P...

The town and seaplane base of Rosario WA exist because the successful shipbuilder and then Seattle mayor Robert Moran chose to retire h...

The Celebrity Solstice is a large cruise ship that spends her summers plying the Inside Passage .  Summer sailings for the weeklong tri...

The 164 was Volvo's foray into the luxury sedan market of 1969 through 1975.  It's a 3L 6 cylinder which allegedly can get to 1...

At the excellent Denver Art Museum , a fine selection of modern art is presented along with the regular European classics.  There is som...

I was impressed by a visit to The Wild Animal Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Denver.  They have a surprisingly large number of tigers, l...

At around 8000ft in Roosevelt National Forest , afternoon sunshine is quickly giving way to some approaching weather.  It snowed  an hou...

Royal Arch is a quick hike gaining 1500ft of elevation just west of Boulder, CO.  It culminates at an impressive natural arch -- one th...

After more than 30 years, United has moved out of the N satellite terminal at SeaTac.  They now occupy a few of the A gates at the extre...

There are 40,000 Microsoft employees in Washington State, and most commute daily to Redmond.  Three options are visible here: luxury spo...

The eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 snake down the shrub-steppe of the Yakima Firing Range between Kittitas and Vantage, on the west s...

The Grand Coulee stretches out towards the horizon from this vantage point on Steamboat Rock .  Imagine 500 cubic miles of lake rushing ...

WSDOT's smallest ferry, the Martha S, was built in 1948 and will shortly be retired.  The Keller Ferry has run here since the 1890s...