So Sunday was our last day in Oregon. It was raining and blowing up a storm when we left Neskowin. We never did get to try climbing Proposal Rock. Oh well, next time. It was clear to see that at high tide you would be trapped on the rock in any case ( Read more... )

Our plane back from Maui was delayed by two hours. Something about a shortage of de-icer in Seattle. Plus the bad snow storm delayed many travellers (we saw some still sleeping in SeaTac). So we were pretty lucky. Got into Seattle at about 1 am, retrieved all our luggage (no dripping messes from wine or chocolate), and hunted down the Shuttle ( Read more... )

Well, we managed to avoid the first snowstorm of 2008 in Seattle by catching a plane to Hawaii on Friday morning. It hasn't been very sunny, but at least it is warm. Yesterday was our first bona fide nice day, which was great, since we went out on the water ( Read more... )