Given how unpredictable life on the road can get–from Mother Nature’s temper tantrums to human errors to technical glitches–my first rule of travel is “every cloud has a silver lining.” Take for example my trip to Hilo to visit the HawaiÊ»i Volcanoes National Park that’s supposed to stay open 24/7 year round. This is as far as I got: because …
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Two Meals, Two Bags
While I love posting photos of food from the road, it’s rare that I mention a restaurant by name. But sometimes an experience is so special, I have to make an exception. And today’s entry is actually about two meals, two bags. The first one is the beautifully appointed Morimoto Waikiki. From the tiniest detail like the clear acrylic chopsticks …
Tax-free In Portland!
As soon as you drive across the bridge marking the state line between Washington and Oregon, you are in Portland. Blink and you’ll miss that sign above. When I got back home, I realized that I took virtually no pictures of Portland except for the few that you see here. It’s not that the city doesn’t have a gorgeous skyline …
Seattle Center
Seattle really knows how to do tourism right. Streets are clean, downtown is safe, and public transportation is foolproof. From the airport you can hop on the light rail for $2.75, and in about 35 minutes, at the Westlake terminus, you are downtown. There’s plenty of shopping to do here… Speaking of shopping, with this page ripped out from Elle …
Hibulb Cultural Center
Just north of the Snohomish River near the town of Marysville, Washington, is the 22,000-acre Tulalip Indian Reservation. The Tulalip (pronounced as too-LAY-lip ) tribe’s predecessors and allied tribes signed the Treaty of Point Elliot with the US government in 1855. In exchange for the thousands of square miles of their land, the tribes received from the government a nominal …