I grew up in the Seattle area, went to the University of Washington, and lived in Seattle for years after college before relocating for work, meeting Alysha, and eventually making my way back to the Pacific Northwest (this time in Portland). At its core, Seattle is a city that is optimistic and entrepreneurial. You can…
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been revisiting the coffee scene in cities like Seattle and San Francisco – cities I know well, but mostly from before this site became my full time job – and it has really illuminated two things. First, the coffee world is evolving. Five years ago (ish), it felt…
San Francisco is one of our favorite cities on the planet, full stop. If you’ve spent any time in this corner of the internet, you’ll probably know that we met in San Francisco, went on our first date in San Francisco (to a Giants game), we moved in together in San Francisco, and we got…
Over the past few years, we’ve spent a fair amount of time ambling up and down Highway 395, which runs from Los Angeles on the south end up through the Eastern Sierra and Lake Tahoe, all the way up to Oregon, and it has quickly become one of our favorite places on earth (especially in…
This is a hike that we were very, very close to not doing on a rainy morning in Bend that came 48 hours after a bout of food poisoning that had Matt down for the count. We were sitting at the gas station pumping gas and decided we would drive out to Sisters (which was…
A roaring creek (that turns into a babbling brook). An abundance of wildflowers. Jaw-dropping views of the South Sister and Broken Top. Crystal clear blue-green lakes. As Alysha said during this hike, “I think this is heaven for me.” Take all of those aspects we mentioned in the first paragraph and package them into a…