Position: 45°40’46.5″N 111°02’34.9″W With the generous help of our friends Diane and Mark we spent the past month in West Seattle dog-sitting for Gus, and, at their insistence, exploring Bozeman, Montana. They sweetened the deal by letting us use their …
Position: 45°39’40.6″N 110°33’35.6″W The town of Livingston, Montana, might not exist if it weren’t for the railway and its proximity to Yellowstone National Park. As soon as the spur to North Yellowstone was finished, Livingston was on the map. Visitors …
Position: 45°20’16.6″N 110°41’31.5″W Chico Hot Springs Hotel has been in continuous service since 1900. Its white clapboard and green trim has catered to legions of holiday-makers and celebrities. Actor Jeff Bridges met his wife, Susan, there 50 years ago. Steve …
Position: 45°01’46.1″N 110°42’19.6″W In the spring of 1808, no one at Fort Raymond quite believed John Colter’s stories of boiling mudpots, seething water pools, shooting geysers and sulphurous fumaroles. Colter had just returned from a winter-long solo expedition across the …
Position: 47°36’33.8″N 122°20’30.5″W If you are short of friends, night photography is a sure-fire way of meeting people. Grab your camera and a tripod and head downtown. Once you begin setting up, people will flock to you full of curiosity. …
Position: 47°44’39.5″N 121°05’25.5″W “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Despite its 19th century gender normative syntax, there is, as in many of Nietzsche’s ideas, a kernel of truth in …
Position: 47°35’04.7″N 122°23’11.4″W Walking through residential neighbourhoods in the Pacific Northwest is an exercise in exercise and in architectural diversity. Both Seattle and Portland were established at around the same time. Both cities have old neighbourhoods that grew in stages, …
Position: 47°33’40.2″N 122°23’12.6″W This was to be a light post. A fluffy marshmallow describing our latest housesitting engagement in chichi West Seattle. After 10 minutes of digging around the internet for nuggets of history that might serve as a metaphorical …
Position: 47°44’45.0″N 121°05’14.9″W The high-pressure weather system that sat over the Pacific Northwest for almost all of January finally dissipated. The timing was almost perfect. Taking care of the animals and getting to and from the best dog walking spots …
