One of the things I enjoy doing when I’m traveling is exploring the local coffee culture. A couple of examples from the past decade are discovering flat whites in Australia, drinking excellent Mexican coffee in Mexico City (that changed my perspective on how good coffee grown in Mexico can be), and embracing the ristretto and…
If you’ve spent any time at all in our little corner of the internet, you know that we’re big fans of both the Pacific Northwest AND Northern California, the two places we’ve called home together. The road trip we’re about to talk about – the drive between Seattle and San Francisco – takes you through…
California is our home, and we wouldn’t trade it for the world. Except for the sky-high cost of living. We’d like to trade that, please. But there’s a reason it’s expensive to live in California – it’s a pretty amazing place with unbeatable weather. Our recent California road trip reminded us of just how incredible…
If you’ve read our guides before, you’ll know that one of our favorite things about living in Portland is that we’re within a short drive – roughly 90 minutes – of the Pacific Ocean and the mountains (the Cascades, mostly). Within 90 minutes, you can get from Portland to alpine terrain with up-close-and-personal views of…
Olympic National Park, which sprawls across 1,400 square miles in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States, is a land of contrasts. While that’s a bit of a cliche, we think it fits the bill here. Within that vast area, you have the rocky beaches and towering sea stacks of the Pacific Coast, the…
Want to hike to a basin full of some of the most gorgeous alpine lakes in the region? What about a beach hike out to a point where you can search for wildlife in tide pools and admire the towering sea stacks that seem to be exploding out of the ocean? There aren’t very many…