After 17 months of planning, saving, decluttering, and taking more than one big leap into totally unknown territory, I finally made it to the coast. My whole vagabond vision was something like “me at the coast, taking beach walks every day” and it didn’t really get much more definite than that. Yeah, I know, there are national parks in Utah and deserts and canyons all over to see, but those weren’t what drove me forward all these months. I’m a water baby at heart, and the coastal waters are where I need to be right now as I figure out how…
Month: August 2016
Review: Ocean City State Park, WA
A quiet little campground tucked in between the beach mecca of Ocean Shores and the gambling mecca that is Quinault Beach Resort and Casino, this is a little gem mostly because of the fast and easy walk to very long stretch of wide open beach.
Review: Manchester State Park, WA
A little gem of a campground, close enough to see Seattle but far enough away that you feel a million miles away from crowds and cars and city life. The nearest town is Port Ochard, with gas stations, groceries, and restaurants, but since this park is at the tip of the peninsula, dead-ended against the water, it feels way more remote than it really is.
Done.
My first job: babysitting three little boys and two German Shepherds every other week in the summer. I don’t know which I liked less, the diapers or the dog poop. So there it was, at the age of 13: work involves shit. #Truth I worked my way up the employment food chain in high school and college: tutor, camp counselor, library clerk, and my first job after college, a VISTA volunteer. I was almost a year out of college and was library clerking to pay the rent when I saw the ad that literally changed my life. A high-tech company was looking for…
Review: Lewis & Clark State Park, WA
This was a bolthole park for me, I needed somewhere decently close to Seattle in case I was called into work, but I was definitely tired of the parks closer to the city. This one, a few miles off of I-5 and south of Chehalis offered reasonably close access to grocery, laundry, and walmart, so it would do. It had a lovely open area, and looked promising at first glance.