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Underworld

Posted by Ken Campbell August 28, 2012 0 Comment 1238 views

“I’M GOING TO TAKE A DUMP!” The woman’s yell reverberates around the campsite loop. I assume she is bellowing at her kids in the site across from ours – the chubby girl in the MMA t-shirt and the boy with the bag of Fritos – but her volume control is stuck on 11 and her […]

RIP Neil Armstrong

Posted by Ken Campbell August 26, 2012 1 Comment 1239 views

The first solo flight across the Atlantic happened in 1927. Charles Lindbergh was the pilot who made the trip, from Long Island to a little field outside of Paris, and when he landed, over 100,000 people were there to greet him. Nobody remembers the second person who did it. We do remember the third solo […]

Rant

Posted by Ken Campbell August 24, 2012 0 Comment 1280 views

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” John Ruskin Because I have a retail shop, and because the items I sell are a mixture of new and used, I am […]

Still waters

Posted by Ken Campbell August 23, 2012 0 Comment 1209 views

The water outside my window has been calm lately, more than I can remember for this long. It’s hard to imagine that this is the same Tacoma Narrows that roils with current and rolls with huge wind waves during winter storms. During those times of tempest, the white bubbles trail off the tops of the […]

Underground

Posted by Ken Campbell August 22, 2012 0 Comment 1184 views

I think Micah and I will be heading down to the Ape Caves this coming weekend. One last summer foray before school starts, before the shortest season begins to shut down. It has been a long time since I was last there and the boy has never been…

Wild enough?

Posted by Ken Campbell August 21, 2012 0 Comment 1267 views

There is a move afoot to enshrine 126,554 acres of Olympic land as wilderness, effectively closing them off from further development in the years ahead. Many of the specific areas that make up the total are located along rivers and streams throughout the Olympic Peninsula, and the added protection will help to ensure that the […]

Amber changes her mind

Posted by Ken Campbell August 20, 2012 0 Comment 2163 views

“I didn’t do it!” “I didn’t do it!” “Yeah, I did it.” After a year-and-a-half of legal posturing and delay tactics, mixed with hubris and an utter disdain for any kind of personal responsibility, Amber Steim (that’s her above on the right, in her natural environment), may be willing to plead guilty to taking the […]

That loving feeling

Posted by Ken Campbell August 19, 2012 0 Comment 1178 views

Remember that first time you paddled a kayak, by yourself? When you were captain of your own ship and the possibilities for an ocean voyage seemed limitless? Remember when it first dawned on you that you could go from point A to point B by whatever route you chose, that there were no trails you […]

I must have blinked

Posted by Ken Campbell August 18, 2012 2 Comments 1240 views

When I was young, back in my salad days, we had a gold Dodge Dart 4-door. A “P.O.S.” as the kids might call it these days, but it was the family rig, a slant-six slab of Detroit heavy metal that I thought was pretty cool – of course, I was only 10. We got it […]

Ikkatsu daily report – Mosquito Creek to Ruby Beach

Posted by Ken Campbell August 17, 2012 0 Comment 1327 views

August 9, 2012 We get up by 6:30, and on the water just before 8:00am. Unlike the rest of the days on this leg, the skies are blue and the sun is shining, and there is no sign yet of the 25-knot winds that are supposed to hit later in the day. We poke our […]