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A drive-in surprise

Greg Lamm April 21, 2018

On Whidbey Island the Blue Fox Drive-In Theater can still draw a crowd, even on a chilly, rainy night. Shows start at dusk. Admission: $6.50 Cash, $7 Card.

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The kindness of the Kaua’i koi pond gardener

Greg Lamm February 17, 2016

My son befriended the gardener who tends the koi ponds where we stayed near Poipu Beach on Kaua'i during our holiday visit. The gardener lopped off the top of a water jug and made him an aquarium stocked with guppies and aquatic plants.

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The sacred petroglyphs of Ozette Beach

Greg Lamm August 25, 2015

Beach hikers can find some of the surviving Makah petroglyphs etched in a cluster of boulders called the Wedding Rocks along the 3-mile Pacific Coast trek.

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150 years after Lincoln saw the fall of Richmond

Greg Lamm March 12, 2015

Washington, D.C., may have a massive neoclassical temple to Lincoln on the Potomac. But 110 miles south on the banks of the James, the Great Emancipator gets no such deification. In Richmond, god-like status is reserved for Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

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In Miami, a sun-baked mecca of American journalism is reduced to rubble

Greg Lamm February 5, 2015

I couldn’t think of a more concrete (and rubble) symbol of today’s financially struggling newspaper industry. Even metro dailies that had the swagger of the Miami Herald can no longer afford waterfront addresses. 

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Railroad Grade Trail in September

Greg Lamm September 17, 2014

From the edge of the moraine, the Railroad Grade Trail becomes an exhilarating high-wire hike as you make a steady ascent on the approach to the mighty Easton Glacier.

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Hood River Pipeline Trail: A hidden catwalk hike near the Columbia Gorge

Greg Lamm August 31, 2014

Tucked between the wind-blown Columbia River Gorge and the slopes of the Cascade peaks, there is a lesser-known outdoor experience offering hikers a unique way to view a glacier-fed river making a comeback after decades of being dammed up.

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Sam Baker’s biggest fans

Greg Lamm August 29, 2014

No matter where Texas singer-songwriter Sam Baker performs, there's always a chance two of his biggest fans – Trey Palmer and Penny Edwards – will be in the audience.

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The Rebel redneck with the Canadian accent who rescued our summer camping vacation

Greg Lamm August 20, 2014

The proudest Southern redneck I have met in many, many years drives a red Dodge Charger adorned with a Confederate flag, but his accent is distinctly Canadian.

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A spring rite unfazed: Great blue herons are nesting again at the Ballard locks

Greg Lamm March 22, 2021

It’s nesting season for the great blue herons at the locks in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, a ritual that is carrying on uninterrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic. March is a good time to see the gangly birds prepping for the arrival of their spring hatchlings. The …

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Why is Elvis Crying?

Greg Lamm May 7, 2020

I walk by this mural near Pioneer Square every day. And I always wonder, why is Elvis crying? 1. Maybe he was bitten by bed bugs at Heartbreak Hotel? 2. Guilt over being the King of cultural appropriation? 3. He just discovered how much Col. …

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Facebook said I was the target audience for groups that promote white supremacy and eugenics

Greg Lamm April 2, 2018

Facebook said I was the target audience for far-right groups that pine for an Antebellum South and preach the virtues of white supremacy and eugenics. I discovered this when I went to Settings/Ads/YourInterests on Facebook and saw the types of ads the social media site …

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The best way to spend a snow day in Iowa is in a cavernous skating rink in a cornfield

Greg Lamm March 28, 2018

Jewel Skate Country has been around for more than 30 years. Big speakers were blasting out Camila Cabello's "Havanna" and there is a new lighting system, but the rink fells like you are stepping back into the 1980s.

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In Portland you can ride a modern streetcar to a museum celebrating ancient steam engines

Greg Lamm March 29, 2017

Portland is a train town. From its history as a 19th Century railroad outpost up to the present with its light rail and streetcars, steel wheels on tracks seem to have forever resonated in the The City of Roses. One place where old meets new …

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