I'm not a huge sports fan or anything but I read the Orlando Sentinel periodically to keep an eye on things back there. Apparently the knights actually won against NC State. I'm not exactly sure how they managed to pull that off but "yay" anyway.

I drove most of the Cascade loop highway route on Saturday. I say most because I didn't do the western most piece down Whidbey Island. I drove east from Everett over Stevens pass and then stopped in Leavenworth. Interesting town. The shops ... read more

Cascadia. A word that was totally alien to me when I first arrived in my car from Florida in May of 2006. I am not a native Washingtonian (is that a word?). I've only lived here for a year and a half. I immediately noticed something was different here. The land was more beautiful, even with the Puget Sound sprawl. On that day, something changed. I changed. I still have some of the attitudes present in every Floridian but every day they fade. A little agression seeps away, a little car... read more