So at some point before the wedding I picked up a Fred Meyer plastic grocery bag underneath the BMW, which subsequently melted itself to the exhaust system and smelled all the way to Canada. Being lazy and on my honeymoon, I didn't actually remove the plastic until the last day...
Wood carving has been a part of northwestern culture for many centuries. The natives have been carving totem poles for a really long time and, from what I can tell, they passed the culture of carving down to the settlers when they really started to populate this area in the...
This actually exists: it's the intersection of Kitchen-Dick and Woodcock roads in podunk Sequim, WA. Also note that a mile or so away, someone had covered up the K on the sign where Kitchen-Dick meets highway 101....
We're back! Time for pictures. Craigdarroch castle, in suburban Victoria. There's a petting zoo in the park right outside of our B&B. Layla got to pet some baby goats. Us, outside of the Empress hotel in the heart of downtown Victoria. Part of our room at Dashwood Manor. Step 1:...
While in sunny (and damned hot) Canada, we're staying at Dashwood Manor, a bed & breakfast right outside downtown Victoria, BC. This place was built back in 1912 and sports the age-appropriate Mock Tudor exterior with lots of dark wood paneling on the inside—except it's all tasteful, unlike the crappy...
OK, this one-picture-per-post thing isn't going to fly. Here are the shots I snagged today. This is what I look like before I've had my coffee. Apparently I'm really groggy and wear national agency shirts in foreign lands. This is what Layla looks like when she flashes gang signs to...
Let's all 1337 like it's 2003....
Click on the photo to see the phoons hidden in the arrows. Ahem....
Part of the drive/ferry ride to Victoria involves the whimsical town of Port Gamble, which appears to have been frozen in carbonite circa 1880 and thawed sometime last week1. Inside one of the Victorian-era waterfront homes (of which there were only about a dozen), a local store hosted a "marine...
Well, we've taken the plunge. ...and that means it's time to get away from it all. Layla and I actually snuck away from the party on Saturday night to a secret local hotel (it turned out to be the one I stayed at for my interview at Microsoft) but it's...
