Topic: road trip

See this and other shots from my road trip with the Sprockettes.(Photo © J. Maus) Just a reminder to stop by the Breeze Block Gallery (NE 10th and Alberta) tonight for a special, Sprockette-themed art and photo exhibition. Tonight will be the opening of my first photo exhibition and I'll be sharing images from a recent road...

Gay-owned Yummy Wine Bar & Bistro holds an opening reception for Nutz + Boltz: A Robot Show‚ featuring a collection of new works by artists Jimmy Pickering and Maura Cluthe, from 6 to 10 p.m. today at 831 Broadway in Seaside. The exhibit closes Nov. 19. Read on: When two highly successful artists decide to combine...

Our road trip to the coast...leaving Central Oregon's High Desert: juniper trees and sage brush... Ponderosa pine trees before the mountain pass to the Willamette Valley A lovely break at Mark's sister's farm in Mt. Angel where we stayed for two nights On the road again, this time in the coastal mountain range. The wet canopy of trees lining the road has always made me...

All about my vacation road trip... Monday morning, I accompanied Anxiety for her registration at her new high school. Louise — er, Lyse, that is — and I left about 9am on Monday, and had a great road trip! The trip south Well, aside from one little kerfluffle involving stopping in Albany because Lyse's "check engine" light came on. After she had been reassured by a professional...

Earlier this week Ryan and I went up to Vancouver BC and then down to Auburn, WA to watch a couple of Radiohead shows. It was absolutely amazing as always and felt like more of an "experience" than a show. The LED light display they have going on is crazy, I've seen lots of interesting light shows but this one definitely takes the cake. They did a good job of integrating it into...

This needs to be quick, because I'm on a road trip come morning. Last week's eating was good... lost 1.8 pounds! This week, not so good, and probably worse over the weekend to come. Well, I'll try not to get too carried away and hope to be back on track Monday when my gym reopens after maintenance week. Meanwhile, I've been indulging in lots of Olympics and also my DVD workouts. Survived small...

I took a fly down to Los Angeles this past week. After years of urging we finally got the wife's sister and her daughter to agree to leave that town of little brown people and move up here to Oregon with us. My mission was to drive in, load up a bunch of stuff in my van, and take the daughter back with me so that she could enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer here in paradise. I began my...

We drove down to the Bay area on Friday to visit our daughter, and got back last night. It was great to see her again. When, oh when, are we going to have Star Trek transporters? Some random observations: Driving through Klamath Falls we saw plumes of smoke or something all along the lake, like a series of vortices. On closer inspection, they turned out to be clouds of insects. ugh. Oh, and...