Great Blue Heron, Descendant of Dinosaurs

Great Blue Heron, Descendant of Dinosaurs, landed in the Wilds of Green Lake, a park in northern Seattle, Washington State, Cascadia, one day in May.

Ardea herodias dinosaurus avianus

The large, elegant bird stood as still as a Buddha, except this Buddha was a predator. All action froze as matter flowed thru time except for those ripples in the lake and around us in the air. In the still point left unturned, my mind awakened from the erotic distractions of being with a new lover those early months of 2015, already a bygone year bereft of present moments. This great blue heron, however, this Descendant of Dinosaurs and as regal as an Avian monarch, brought everything into a focus as sharp as the spike of its beak.

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In the Wake of the Storm: A Winter Journey into the Coulees of the Scablands

A Chronicle of a Father & Daughter’s Changing Relationship as they travel deep into Mose’s & Frenchman’s Coulees in the Channeled Scablands of Cascadia’s Washington Desert searching for connection as much as for adventure one long February weekend in the year 2015.

***This is work in progress with apologies for the delay. Go ahead & enjoy anyway! The rest shall come.***

See! My daughter does love me, LOL!

Moses Coulee expanse from the old, two-lane highway, Monday 9 February 2015.

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Travel Quickies

Attitude over Gear


Hey there! Wow, an entire planet to explore! Cool, huh? So, welcome. Let’s go! Let’s have fun! Because adventure travel can be pretty darn hard sometimes. Difficult, dangerous, even scary, and always incredibly rewarding. Furthermore, it’s OK to make mistakes! Life is messy. We all mess up. So own it, OK? Own it now! Make mistakes & learn from ’em, but don’t mess around. We don’t want anyone to get sick, hurt, or worse.

Oh, my goodness, lookit! Leave all that heavy stuff at home, LOL! Quickly, too, before I start typing in blankety-blanks here.

Think about it. Your pack’s gonna be your home away from home. So treat it with respect. Protect your home as you would your body as the temple for your soul. You wanna be light and nimble on your feet. Even lighter if you’re on crutches. Here we’re gonna dive into a warren of rabbit holes crawling with Cheshire Cats.

You are invited to give feedback and share from your own experiences & knowledge. Consider we’re all in a way forming a community here online. We’re on the same team! We’re certainly all on the same planet. So share & bam bam boom it out across all yer socmed platforms. I’d appreciate you doing so. Don’t worry about not looking suave & professional either. No worries! Yeah, no worries there, and no worries here. Bring yourself and share your stories, too. After all, life is messy! Let’s go make a few more messes, woo HOO!

Thank you.

Update:

Travel Quickies was originally an idea for a new category and page section for a series of short articles geared toward preparing for trips to travel in different countries or into the wilderness in your own. A dynamic customer named Christina inspired me to take such an approach after I worked with her and her fiancé to travel into both cities and the backcountry. She thought I should do YouTube videos, and I hesitated as I didn’t want to be bound by their rules and cybersecurity concerns. Anyway, the process morphed into mini-articles. So moved this into posts as an article. 

“Travel Quickies” encourages a way of thinking about one’s self and others when one is traveling whether by foot down a remote wilderness trail, a train abroad, or in a megacity on the other side of the world. It’s more attitudes, aye, more for mindsets and even heartsets (hey, coined a new word there!) than it is about gear and clothes and luggage. Such is always changing even if so much appears to remain the same.

Enjoy the journey!

William Dudley Bass
Saturday 17 September 2017
Friday 17 April 2020
Seattle, Washington
USA
Cascadia
Sol

Image Sources:

*Top Image: https://pixabay.com/en/earth-earth-at-night-night-lights-11595/ CC0 Creative  Commons.

*Bottom Image: https://pixabay.com/en/earth-planet-front-side-back-11593/ CC0 Creative Commons.

 

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