Back in 2021 the New York published an article about a type of food I’d never heard of before: the French taco. Here’s the link; go read it and then come back here. I – and many of my friends – were amazed. It sounded incredible and disgusting at the same time. F. Scott Fitzgerald… Continue reading In Praise of the French Taco
First Ascents
Since moving to Seattle, I – like many before me – have fallen in love with Mt. Rainier. The mountain is massive and always looming over the horizon. Plus, as you get closer, you realize that there is a lifetime’s worth of incredible terrain to explore. Recently I found myself in the Seattle Public Library… Continue reading First Ascents
Seattle Streets
This blog is pretty apolitical. There are plenty of other places on the internet where you can get your political kicks. That being said, I’ve been frustrated recently with the attempts being made to reduce the number of roads in South Seattle. Below is an email I sent to the City of Seattle (Seattle Transportation… Continue reading Seattle Streets
Olympic Beaches Trip Report
The Olympic National Park is a curious and beautiful place. The park is massive at 1,370 square miles. The bulk of this is the Olympic Mountains and their famous rainforests. But on the coast there is a narrow sliver of park. It’s 60 miles long and starts almost at the upper northwest corner of the… Continue reading Olympic Beaches Trip Report
The Ongoing Digitization of Your Life
I’m part of the generation that, while growing up, was the first to have a computer in their house and the last to not have the internet. Now that I have kids, there’s no imagining a world without cheap, ubiquitous, network-connected devices and consequently everything I had a kid has been digitized. I can pick… Continue reading The Ongoing Digitization of Your Life