Travel

Life List Item #85 is in motion. See also: This is one of my biggest, biggest dreams.

April 30, 2012

Life List Item #85 – Attend La Escuela del Sol La Escuela del Sol (The School of the Sun!) is a school in Costa Rica offering Spanish, yoga, scuba, surfing, and fire-dancing classes. Yes, fire dancing. Apparently, that’s a thing. I first learned of La Escuela del Sol a few years ago while poking around [...]

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You can’t do Chicago in a weekend, and other reasons I quit my cushy job and left my home, friends, and family to pursue a life of wanderlust, uncertainty, and making the world my office.

March 21, 2012

The summer of 2009 was a game-changer for me. It’s the year I grew a pair and decided to leave the most comfortable job, life, place I’d ever known and move halfway across the country. It’s the year I spent jet-setting like a crazy person (I once counted 15 airports, 13 trips, 7 Cities, in 8 [...]

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The One With All of the Travel. Again.

November 1, 2011

Titles to help you plan a getaway. So, I’ve been tweeting from all over lately. I was in Seattle last week, I’m in Las Vegas right now, and between tonight and next Monday, I’ll have hit various parts of Arizona and southern Utah before making my way back to Portland. Then, standby-gods permitting, I’ll be [...]

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62 | Old GMC School Bus

November 1, 2011
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This school bus holds about half of the seating at the Grilled Cheese Grill on Portland’s NE Alberta St. My favorite grilled cheese sandwich here is the Jalapeño Popper – jalapeños, melted cheese, cream cheese, and tortilla chips. Try it. You won’t regret it.

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42 | Space Needle

October 12, 2011
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Big, huge thanks to Seattle (and sometimes-Portland) friend, Josh for driving Chris and I up to the lookout point with THIS view. Seattle, you’re very pretty.

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