This isn’t a secret. The PSE Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility and Renewable Energy Center (see photo), located near Ellensburg, Washington, has been closed for at least month and perhaps longer. Recently, though, the message on their web page became more specific and made me realize that the visit I had been planning is a no-go—for 2025 anyway.
Continue readingI think most people have heard of Richardson’s Law, probably not by name but surely by sentiment as there are other ways of stating the same idea. The problem is that the law is easy to break, intentionally or not. In need of a continuing reminder, I had it printed on a small plastic sign that I attached to the sun visor of my daily driver. When I’m traveling and the driving gets stressful, I glance at it for some relief.
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Posted in Cars, Friends & Family, Travel
Fishing Float at Second Beach, La Push, Washington
I have a modest collection of fishing floats and buoys although none of them came from Mud Bay. The trophy float shown in the photo isn’t part of the collection. There are more details after the jump about this float plus a photo of a world-class collection.
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One trip a month. Twelve trips in a year. Is that doable for a retired person, even if the traveler is a homebody like me? January is almost over and I’m tripless so far. But not to worry, I’m leaving on a road trip to Kalaloch on the Washington Coast tomorrow morning.
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People walk to subway stations, bus stops, ferry terminals, and train stations. Why not walk to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport? I don’t mean from home. For me that would be more than 50 miles. I mean walking from the satellite parking lots along International Boulevard (SR 99) to the airport, or the other way around if you are returning from a trip out of town. There’s no good reason to do this, of course, other than exercise and the possible benefit provided by a good walk just before or after a lengthy airline flight.
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I always read the latest articles on airline travel when I’m about to make a flight as I will be doing next week. Yesterday The Seattle Times ran an article on whether passengers should be allowed to use their cell phones during flights. The writer, Tom Belden of The Philadelphia Inquirer, admitted up front to stirring the pot but then did a good job summarizing the current situation (link to article at end of post). Several readers used the Comments feature to weigh in with their opinions. One summed up my feelings exactly.
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I thought it was a typo. Hard to believe there would be one in an email sent to thousands of Alaska Airlines Insider subscribers. There wasn’t. They didn’t mean address, although address would have made some sense given the context. They actually meant redress, one of my favorite words in the Bill of Rights, which, among other things, gives us the right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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Posted in Government, Travel
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