I broke the iPad in Utah. Unloading the truck and not paying attention, I managed to toss the thing onto the concrete floor of Matt’s garage and it struck, corner-first, thus shattering it. Having harangued the girls more or less relentlessly over the course of the trip to be incredibly cautious about our fragile electronic …
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Gallery Time: Farm Ageddon
Stephanie and Feral announced one day that the call had come in: a friend of theirs, maybe an hour or so away, had given us permission to glean their peach orchard. Gleaning means to simply collect the fruits that have fallen to the ground following the initial harvest, and so we spent a focused few hours …
Gallery Time: Mussel Beach
This was about the most perfectly conceived and executed end-to-end gastronomic event of our stay in Oregon. Stephanie, fed up with the heat, announced we were headed to the coast in order to cool down, dip our toes in the ocean, and knock some mussels off the rocks at a secret location and accessible only …
Farm Ageddon & Naked Chicks
Much has happened, all terrific. Long post here, but for the visually inclined some pictures are embedded and there are several related galleries up for perusal. *** We’re in southern Oregon. Early one morning I was enjoying a cup of coffee with Leonie in Stephanie’s kitchen, surrounded by the hundreds upon hundreds of peaches that …
Rocky Mountain High
So, where the hell have we been? Fair question. As it turns out, I’m composing this quick missive from a secret outpost deep in the woods of Oregon where grass fed beef and kale and multiple rounds of a particularly aggressive IPA are coming at me from all angles. It’s hell, and I may have to stay for …
Wedding Bells
There was a time, it feels like a century ago now, when I woke in the morning before the sun rose to the manic chirp of an alarm and took a crowded subway from Brooklyn to Midtown. After pushing through dense schools of people in Grand Central I rode an elevator to a trading floor …
Rivets, The O Room, Werewolves and The Rim
As happens from time to time, this morphed into a pretty long post, so if you’re the visual type and don’t have the time or patience to read all these words then skip down to the bottom for the photo gallery. *** If there was a single standout moment for me at the Overland Expo in …
Calf Creek
Our stay on the north rim of the Grand Canyon was pretty special for a number of reasons, and reminded us of just how exceptionally rewarding it can be to keep ourselves off the beaten path if only because of the people we meet in these places. We had been chatting with a couple from …
No Map
Back in December, long distant enough now that it feels like a lifetime ago to me, we spent Christmas at the Guadeloupe Canyon hot springs. The girls, as they always do at a new destination, immediately scampered all over the place, exploring the palm stands and bouldering the rocks and inspecting all the other sites …
Grand Mere
While in Cottonwood, I got news that my grandmother was doing quite poorly. My sister and I have been very close with our grandparents for our entire lives. Some of my earliest memories involve getting thrown into the back seat of our old Volvo with a stack of blankets on top of us, ready to …
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