Taking Your Camera on the Road

Here's an interesting tidbit few people know about Lorelle. She creates great snow sculptures.
Indeed, I do. I have a long history of creating fun snow sculptures.
When I was young, my mother would travel every November around her birthday to a warmer climate. She'd head for Hawaii, Mexico, Arizona, anywhere but the cold Pacific Northwest. As [...]

Is your trailer worth a million dollars? What about your motor home? How would you like your trailer to be worth a million dollars?
According to a CNN report (print version), residents of a trailer park in Florida are preparing to sell their trailers and trailer lots to a developer for more than a million dollars [...]

My father, Howard W. West, died a few days ago. There will be a memorial service Wednesday, October 25, 2006, from 6-8PM at Solie Funeral Home, 3301 Colby Avenue, Everett, Washington.
Howard W. West Jr., was also known as "Bud" or "Howie" to his friends and family. Born April 20, 1937, to Faye Vaughn West and [...]

BloggingPro pointed out a blog about two guys, Scotty and Fiddy, who have set a goal to hitchhike to all 50 US state capitals in 50 consecutive days. Their site is Hitch50.com.

It's official. Hitch 50 begins Tuesday, October 10th at 10:00 AM Eastern time. We will be in Times Square hitchin' to New York's capital: [...]

We had a lot of plans of things that need to get done this weekend, and now our plans are changing. Again. I turned on NPR and found out that Tropical Depression 5 is now Hurricane Ernesto and computer models show it on a path that may turn right for us.
While the models are just [...]

As many of you know, I've been working with Wordpress on a variety of projects, including testing and publishing on Wordpress.com with Lorelle on WordPress, and I'd like to extend an invitation to all my Hebrew and Arabic speaking friends to blog about their experiences, opinions, and perspectives on current events (and other things) on [...]

My apologizes to all of my friends in the Middle East for not getting through to you sooner. I've been traveling extensively these past few weeks, crisscrossing the United States again, and this week found me in tons of airports and long car rides without much Internet connection nor news information.
To all of my Israeli, [...]

I'm heading back to Seattle from Wisconsin tomorrow. My mother and I found a ton of family, both dead and alive, in Shawano, Brown, and other counties. I'm slowly starting to write about the trip on my new genealogy family history blog, so you can follow the adventures and our discoveries there.
This has been an [...]