Pick-up Dogs How Two Rescue Dogs Save the West from Being Won
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Origins of the Adventure Buddies name
It’s time to explain the origin of the name Adventure Buddies of Pick-Up Dogs fame. Five years ago, my then girlfriend-now wife Kirsten and I had left Marcos and Lupe, my two rescue pups, and headed to Mexico. It was tough to leave the dogs behind but we did, cringing as we packed the suitcases. […]
Criss-Crossing the Cascades from East Side to West Side with Dogs
Lu’s plumage, her long tail, wildflowers, and Mount Hood in the background. Mount Hood morning. Mount Jefferson and the Cascade crest accented with a slight fog. Ponderosa pines along a ridge in Central Washington. Marcos and Kirsten with the absolutely enormous Mount Rainier some 60 miles into the background. Mount Baker with glaciers unfolding […]
The Shade of Trees
“In the shade I should have known the tree which gave it, without looking up,—not because the sharp little spicular leaves of the fir, miniatures of that sword Rome used to open the world, its oyster, would drop and plunge themselves into my eyes, or would insert their blades down my back and scarify,—but because […]
Dogs in Cuba
In 2009, I was given an academic visa to study Cuban culture. I went mainly to pay homage to some of my favorite authors and musicians and to see what the island is really like. I spent my 10 days in Cuba walking the city of Havana. When I travel, I like to constantly be […]