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You Can’t Go Back | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. You Can’t Go Back. October 27, Willard, Utah. When riding down the road, Bill is most likely to point out a cool old car–he has a magical ability to name the model and year of any American car from the 50s or 60s after taking the briefest glance. I’m more likely to point out a hawk, or interestingly-formed tree. It’s safe to say we’re attracted to somewhat different things. I wondered.) We stopped in convenience ...
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Ludwig Road | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. November 12, 2014. We had decided that Snohomish was the right town for us. After all. But where to actually live? Bill had his wish list: A yard, some grass, a house, not an apartment. Someplace where I could have a vegetable garden, since I had a huge one back in Woodstock. Then she called one of the agents to ask if some prospective landlords might be willing to come down some from. Price Yes, was the answer.
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Where Do Penguins Really Come From? | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. Where Do Penguins Really Come From? October 27, Near Cheyenne, Wyoming. But it was fine for us, and we took a long break from the road. I wrote a blog post on my tablet. Bill wandered the knick knacks. We debated whether this was the true origin of his penguin mug, and I pointed to the similar-looking penguins adorning the motel to bolster my belief that it was. Why penguins in the middle of Wyoming? 8221; And he poi...
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The Oregon Trail | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. We crossed into Oregon and everything changed. Or at least the landscape changed. Dramatically. The flat brown and feedlots of Idaho disappeared, and Interstate 84 wound its way around steep mountainsides studded with conifers. Nothing but conifers. Just like that, we had entered the great Pacific Northwest. 6 miles, or. Well, there certainly wasn’t anything. That night we slept in Baker City, Oregon. We’d ...Address...
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mzetlin | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. In Woodstock a few years ago, a friend who’d grown up in California came to visit and sighed nostalgically over the blackberry bush at the edge of the woods near our driveway. We loved our blackberries there and I would occasionally do battle with surprisingly aggressive ants to pick a bowlful that I might later combine with a heated-up brownie to make an indulgent dessert. 8220;You mean herbicide? To eat the stuff.
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Welcome Home! | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. The walls were still dark wood with random rock-and-roll art artifacts mounted on them, including a poster for Lost Dogma. The band where Ted, the owner, was the bass player. But the wall between the tap room and the performance room had in large part been removed and fixtures everywhere had been redone and spiffed up, the work of our soon-to-be good friend Kyle. And when would this place start feeling like home?
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I Lose My Cool and Get It Back | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. I Lose My Cool and Get It Back. Getting paid well for my work is really nice. Having that money go missing when I’m counting on it, not so much. But then, as our move approached, I faced the same question for each of my clients: Given the time lag between when I send in an invoice and when I get paid, should I put my old address or my new one on the invoice? It seemed like a slightly worse idea on September 14 when t...
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Why Oh Why Can’t We Ever Leave Wyoming? | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. Why Oh Why Can’t We Ever Leave Wyoming? October 26, Rawlins, Wyoming. But one thing’s for sure: The combination of the van and trailer seriously lacks in aerodynamics. We catch every bit of wind that comes our way. Trucks passing by still feel like they’re pushing us off the road, though we don’t fishtail like we used to thanks to the load levelers we got in Indiana. Wind is not our friend. Our first entry into Wyomi...
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Horse and a Diner | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. Horse and a Diner. This old boy was born with the dreams of the old songs,. Riding the range and singin’ like Gene Autry. Watching Roy Rogers and Trigger right after Hopalong. I’d ride through my backyard prairie just like they taught me. October 28, Wendell, Idaho. Those are the opening lines of “ Horse and a Blanket. 8220;That’s a working horse,” I said. I looked at them with interest for a few moments and went bac...
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We Hit the Road and the Road Hits Back | Marriage & Other Adventures
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Marriage and Other Adventures. On love, commitment, and moving to the Pacific Northwest. We Hit the Road and the Road Hits Back. October 5, Cooperstown, NY. To borrow a phrase from the musical. 8220;Yesterday was plain awful! As you know if you’ve been reading this blog, our departure date, originally contemplated for September 1, has been delayed, and delayed, and delayed again. Until this week when we made a pact:. We would leave Friday, no matter what. 8220;What’s that? 8221; I asked. 8221; I shouted.
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