Riveted

Camping with Friends is the Best

I'm looking forward to more of this kind of camping. The kind where you meet up with good friends and hang out making food and building fires and drinking wine, generally creating a huge mess in the tiny Airstream kitchen by the end of the night. There's nothing better. 

(This was at Cherry Creek in Denver, after Alumafandango last fall.)

Next week we'll head out for a week in the Columbia River Gorge. We'll be meeting up with friends from Holland (I'm taking them Airstreaming!), then some local friends, and then we'll head West to Pasco, Washington for the Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival where we'll meet up with more local friends (and hopefully meet some new). After the Airstream rally at the bluegrass festival, our plan is to drive West and explore some areas we haven't explored on our own, before docking in Seattle with some friends for a few days to attend the Proof Distiller's Festival.

Sounds like fun doesn't it? If you've got any good suggestions for spots between Pasco, WA and Seattle (along I-82 and I-90) let us know. (It's a work week, so we'll need some cell reception/Wi-Fi.)

Do What You Love

We're at home now for a few days before heading back out for more Airstreaming. I'm standing here at my desk (actually, I'm standing on the trampoline in front of my standing desk), and hanging on the wall to my right is a thing that I love and wanted to share with you. It's a framed print of the Holstee Manifesto.

I love the message and you should too:

Holstee is a cool company with a lot of great products. Check 'em out here.

A Break in the Weather

Yesterday when we had a little break in the stormy weather, my mom asked if we could try to get a photo of her with her dogs out on some of the huge driftwood pieces just out from our campsites, near the beach. We ended up with several really good ones. Here are two of my favorites:

L-R: Journey, my mom, Pirate, Quest

L-R clockwise: Journey, my mom, Pirate, Quest (on the ground)

We had a good breakfast of veggie and egg frittata with big wedges of watermelon, and now we're hard at work with a much less stormy view of the Columbia River.