Crater Lake, in the Cascade Mountains in Southern Oregon, lies in a collapsed volcanic basin.

Crater Lake, in the Cascade Mountains in Southern Oregon, lies in a collapsed volcanic basin.

Destination: Seattle.

Crater Lake, in the Cascade Mountains in Southern Oregon, lies in a collapsed volcanic basin.

May 12th, 2009

The highway of life transition.

A travel guide to three Pacific Coast Highway road trips over seven years.

High gas prices at a gas station in downtown Seattle

May 12th, 2006

Why you should love high gas prices.

Counterintuitively, high gas prices are good for you.

A French blue dress shirt from Nordstrom

December 21st, 2005

Jenny from Nordstrom, you're my hero!

Nordstrom's excellent customer service helps avoid a dating disaster.

The Shins play at the Showbox in downtown Seattle

December 18th, 2005

Congratulations! You made it another year without dying!

It's your birthday, but you're not special.

Seattleites commandeer Olive Ave. for use as a huge sledding hill.

January 8th, 2004

Visiting the past.

Remembering the past in Normandy and Seattle.

Bill Gates's house as seen from Lake Washington

August 8th, 2000

A visit to Bill's house.

Experiencing an intern donut with Bill Gates.

Another Destination

Hiking toward Coxcomb Mountains Inner Basin

Joshua Tree, California.

Life simplified.

Another Destination

The Dam in Amsterdam

Amsterdam.

Flossing in the queen's palace and ugly sex workers.

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Skating by.

Understanding the post-feminist ethos of roller derby.

A happy couple at the Swan Club on Long Island

Thank God I'm mannequin-sized.

Losing a tuxedo and a friend in a single weekend isn't easy.

A cable car hangs overhead as a hiker adjusts his tent (photo by Brian Leukart)

Trekking the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Brothers tackle dangerous surge channels on the West Coast Trail.

Bicycles sit waiting for a class (courtesy of Josh Hikes)

Bicycling to nowhere.

The peculiarity of studio cycling and Los Angeles gym culture.

The ruins in Copán, Honduras include a Mesoamerican ballgame court.

How to win your ex-girlfriend back (in Honduras)

A Central American love story.

Mountains shrouded in fog behind Refugio Lago Paine in Chilean Patagonia's Torres del Paine National Park.

Adopted by Kiwis in Chilean Patagonia.

Hiking the Torres del Paine Circuit on another family's vacation.

A sign warns trespassers at the boundary of Area 51 as security officers in a truck keep watch from a ridge.

Searching for UFOs near Area 51.

A travel guide to America's most mysterious military base.

The McKinley River with tens of braids in the distance

Accepting Wet Feet.

A harrowing attempt at crossing the McKinley River in Denali National Park, Alaska.

Santa Claus (a.k.a. Brian) dons a Santa suit on the Grand Canyon's South Kaibab Trail.

Santa Claus snowshoes the Grand Canyon, rim to rim to rim.

Brothers tackle a classic trek with magical, holiday cheer.

A hiker gazes at the canyon walls of Buckskin Gulch.

Flat Stanley escapes a flash flood in Buckskin Gulch.

Hiking the world's longest Slot Canyon with a boy made of paper.

A zebra and her newborn baby stand together in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve.

Goodman, my good man! What is that zebra doing?

Witnessing a zebra birth in Botswana, Africa.

New Hampshire's Cornish-Windsor Bridge, the longest two-span wooden covered bridge in the world.

Attack of the Chipmunk Serial Killer.

An unnerving drive through rustic New England to a five-year college reunion.

Destinations.

A cable car hangs overhead as a hiker adjusts his tent (photo by Brian Leukart)

Vancouver Island, BC.

An intense rainstorm, the sun saves the day, and a slumber party.

Seattleites commandeer Olive Ave. for use as a huge sledding hill.

Normandy, France.

Time traveling to D-Day.

A fountain in the Paleis Het Loo gardens in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Florence.

Penis envy and St. John the Baptist.

My car sits, terrified, in front of a snowdrift in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Washington State.

Visiting the moon, a Bavarian theme park, and the sandwich that ruined a life.

A windmill in the Yakima Valley at sunset

Hells Canyon, Idaho.

White bug gunk, North America's deepest river gorge, and a very steep climb.

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