The immense scale of Los Angeles boggles the mind. Sunday was forty miles of futile searching along Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards for either Fuddruckers listed in the April 2006 Yellow Pages. Both have since closed. Their corporate web site wasn’t helpful, or the location is employing a class-4 cloaking device. I just can’t find […]
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I’m headed to Los Angeles today to spend the week visiting customers and stafffing our booth the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (basically similar to last year’s USNCCM-equivalent). Since Ride Around Washington is a scant five weeks away, I am bringing my bike in hopes of getting some hot-weather riding. I know: “a bicycle? In
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I’m not one who likes to revist the same places. But it says a lot that I’ve been to Deception Pass state park four years in a row. In the previous visits, I’ve gone over July 4th “weekend,” taking a side trip into Oak Harbor for the fireworks gala. WIth the 4th occurring mid-week, I
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For this recipe, you’ll want to invest in a cherry pitter. The… best… gadget… this time of year. (I have an el cheapo plastic one, $5 at the local kitchen store.) This works best with the red, bing cherries. Wear an apron! Chocolate Cherry Loaf (adapted from Carol Gelles’ “1,000 Vegetarian Recipes”) 1/2 pound fresh
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Palouse Falls is located in the bottom, right corner of the state, out in the middle of nowhere. My interest in this park was piqued after watching the May NOVA special on megafloods. I rarely get out to this part of the state unless I’m on my way to somewhere else, so when I had
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Lake Chelan is located in the central part of Washington, north of Wenatchee. I biked in the general area last year for the Chelan Century Challenge. I didn’t participate in the ride this year, but am considering doing so next year.
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Cape Disappointment is located in the bottom, left corner of the state, near Ilwaco. This was the originally-planned terminus for RAW 2004.
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Sunrise viewpoint I spent the Fourth of July weekend camping at Mt. Rainier. (This is also a not-so-subtle attempt to test the Flickr posting thingie.)
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