On The (Transit) Trail, Part One [draft]
Snow I got up around 7 a.m. the morning of January 9, 2024 in Omaha, Nebraska and looked out the window of the motel I’d checked into the night before. It had continued snowing through…
Ten Weeks In Yerp, Summer 2023
This blog has turned out to be a big project. Right now it’s a work in progress and only half finished. So please check back later to see the rest. —DP Intro Maybe the best…
Summary Of EuroVelo Routes by ChatGPT
I’m about to head off to Europe with my bike and recently learned about the EuroVelo system of bike paths. Though an overview probably exists somewhere on the web, I couldn’t find it easily; so…
Getting Back Into Backpacking
(Or, How To Be Comfortable And Stay Safe On Washington Trails) Invisible Campsite On Friday, October 21, 2022 after hiking a couple miles through the damp coastal woods south of Neah Bay near the…
Tokyo Raves (From 1990s)
I lived in Tokyo, Japan from 1989 to 1999. In 1990 I got my first Macintosh computer and learned to use the PageMaker program to make my “Dave’s Rave” newsletter. Here are four of them…
West Seattle, Etcetera • May–June 2022
After getting a Mexican visa in Florida in Feb ’22, then trying out 3 different cargo vans in March, then heading back to Puerto Morelos, Mexico for 3 months, I landed back in Seattle and…
The Great Cargo Van Experiment
In July of 2021, after fifteen years in Bangkok, Thailand, I decided to return to Seattle. There, I bought a used car and moved into a friend’s condo for a few months. To Van, Or…
Eleven-Day Sailboat Skipper Course
Why Sailing? In some recent blogs I gave updates on a trip I took through southern Thailand. I revisited several towns I’d already been to, the farthest south of which was Trang; just an hour…
Cottage In Upstate New York for Debi
Recently an old friend from high school days named Debi commented on Facebook that she remembered when my family would fly from Seattle to upstate New York, where my parents were from. And then I…
Trang Morning Market Photos
I mentioned before that I’ve been thinking about buying a camera with a long zoom for photographing birds and other stuff on my trip. Well, I think I’ll have to wait until I get back…