Catching up on some downloading. Here are a few photos from the last few days. Laura making some headbadges for our hosts on Orcas. Carl holding up one of the finished headbadges. A parting shot…

A little musical interlude. Laura and I were invited to a cool little neighborhood gathering here in Eugene, OR with our hosts. Neighbors came out in a potluck celebration. We met Josh and Chris who…

After spending the past few weeks poking around Western Washington, we made a command decision… to move on. We have loved Washington, and we feel that we have hardly seen all that it has to…

Orcas has the reputation of being the hilliest of the San Juan islands. For every uphill, however, there are some screaming downhills. Here’s a vid with some great ones. In the video, we’re following our…

Laura and I riding on the interurban trail to Bellingham. Like riding through Jurrasic Park.

One of the things that I’ve been thinking about a lot these past few days, as it begins to truly and deeply settle in that we’re now living a very different lifestyle, is how disconnected…

Receiving mail or packages while on the road is one of those logistical problems we werent quite sure how to handle during our trip. We knew people did it, but weren’t quite sure how. After…

It’s a down day today. After a ferry-a-thon from Victoria, we are back on Orcas with our generous hosts Carl and Beth. We are using the time to do some housekeeping like laundry, backing up…

We’ve been on the road for over a month and are starting to get really familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of our gear. Here’s a post of some of the things that are working…

When we conceived of this trip, we wanted it to be spontaneous, open to change, and very much unplanned. But, the first couple weeks, we wanted to see friends and family, go to a wedding,…