Tag: mt. rainier

• Pacific Northwest Interlude: The Legendary Pumpkins of Washington State

  We’re sitting beside Commencement Bay in lower Puget Sound, enjoying a brunch with friends.  This is not a “brunch” in the way that the word is thrown around so often these days.  We’re provided with Mimosa’s that just keep coming like the tide and enough oysters and shrimp to drive a Maine shell fisherman turn…

  patrickjegan

  October 14, 2013

  Everyday Events, Travels

  Grandson, halloween, mt. rainier, NY, Owego, Puyallup River, scary pumpkin faces, trick or treating

• Travels 11: Is This Our Land?

  I’m ensconced in Orting, WA. with my daughter, Erin, her husband, Bob, grandson Elias and my wife Mariam.  It’s one big happy family.  We’ve spent only one full day here and already I’ve managed to get caught in a hailstorm while walking across a Safeway parking lot.  We weren’t out in the Plains, facing the…

  patrickjegan

  October 8, 2013

  The RV Life, Travels, Writing About Rails

  chai latte, Coal, hail storm, idaho, leased national lands, Montana, mt. rainier, national parks, orating, political cartoon about coal, railroads, WA, washington