A 14 Year Old Reviews Pickathon
This year was the 20th anniversary of the Pickathon music festival. The festival is older than my kids. Maybe Pickathon was always family-friendly, but they...
Qingdao Shopping: Atrium City and Taidong
When you’re 10 years old, the most important part of traveling is buying souvenirs for your friends, so we spent our first afternoon in Qingdao...
A Beautiful Smile
A few days into our trip, my daughter commented that people in Qingdao seemed nicer than people at home. She said, “Even when it’s their...
A Weekend in Bend
When I arrived in Bend, Oregon, I expected to run into characters from Tawna Fenske’s romantic comedies around every corner. I peered into the open...
Doe Bay Tradition
In the late 1930's, Lewis and Eunice drove from their home in Arizona up the coast to Washington state, where they visited a relative -...