Author: Erica | October 26th, 2009 PICKS: Stellar Brew
Mammoth Lakes is a serious ski town, really an all around mountain sports town, and there is no greater evidence of this than the morning conversations at Stellar Brew. Locals gussied up in their down and fleece come by for their morning caffeine fix and stop to discuss climbing/hiking/mountain biking plans for […]
Author: Erica | October 5th, 2009 PICKS: Bidwell Park
Bidwell Park offers many good reasons to spend your day outdoors — a huge natural swimming pool formed by damming the creek that runs through the park, large shady fields for lounging, picnicing or playing and miles of trail for walking, jogging or biking. We managed to spend two afternoons with fellow […]
Author: Erica | September 30th, 2009 PICKS:
Ruby Van Deventer County Park in Del Norte County, CA
Due to California’s state budget crisis, their state park campgrounds now charge the astronomical rate of $35 per night (not including showers or any other extras). Lucky for us, Del Norte County has either done a better job managing their budget or they haven’t […]
Author: Erica | September 29th, 2009 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Shakespeare Festival is sort of a misnomer, as most festivals are temporary and relatively fleeting presences in a town. The OSF runs from February through November, occupies multiple permanent buildings in town, including the U.S.’s first Elizabethan Theater (a la the Globe), and brings in the major income source for the […]
Author: Erica | September 25th, 2009 Sean and I each spent four years in Portland, with two of those years overlapping, so coming back was kind of like putting on an old, comfortable pair of jeans. I just slipped right in as though it had been a week and not a decade.
Ned Ludd
Our first night in Portland, Margot and […]
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