I moved to Washington State more than 25 years ago. And over the years, I’ve enjoyed getting to know this place through hiking, camping, and road tripping in almost every region of the state. Of all the places I’ve visited, Olympic National Park is my favorite. Its tidepool populated coastline, its moody, mossy trails, and …
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday with free park admission through the rest of the weekend. Here are some books to help. Get out there and enjoy!
They say write what you know. And when you grow up in the Pacific Northwest what you know is rain. Days that begin and end with grey skies and that misty drizzle we all know so well, the kind that clings to your eyelashes and paints your clothes with its damp dew. Our suede boots …
The desire to write about a place begins to register in the bones long before the writing happens. A subconscious need to write about the Olympic Peninsula began to grow in me, arose from experiences of the place, for some time before I ever tried to write about it: The immense silence of the old …
