Last Monday, August 21st, 2017 a total solar eclipse crossed the United States coast to coast for the first time since 1918. The last total eclipse to cross a portion of the Northwest was 1979. Although solar eclipses happen every 18 months or so around the world...
Over Father’s Day weekend, we traveled over to Sunriver, OR, a place where some of my youngest and fondest memories were formed. When I was little, my dad built homes in Sunriver and later on, he was a fly-fishing guide on the Deschutes River, so I lived in the area off and on through my...
Crater Lake National Park isn’t well known compared to America’s classics such as Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains to name a few, but it’s truly a sapphire waiting to shine on display once all the snow melts away. Crater Lake is another natural oddity, completely...
Pure silence is a hard thing to come by. Even in the deadest of nights, you may hear a car pass by, the low hum of a computer screen or light, a creak in the wall or the sound of a ventilation system starting up. The wind will beat against an air vent, a storm will pass over, the...