...and so are we. We don't have to explain, we guess, just click on the picture. 

   So we arrived, and went almost immediately for a hike around the Stand , a fairly flat hill structure situated above Bürchen , our hom...

Yesterday morning... ...today.

And he had a wide smile for us! (We're off to Switzerland on Thursday, when blogging will resume (hopefully); we had a very rou...

"Macht doch wenigstens das Licht aus."

 "My friends who live in the area, let me know! Is there some sort of zombie apocalypse hitting town"... 

We're on 81 Vine Street, two blocks from the water front, which was remodeled during the 80's to provide the ideal outdoor experienc...

"Forks (2) --- Seattle (6)"---we stay true to form with this incomprehensible title. Almost as incomprehensible as this sign... ...

Forks. Forks? Bear with us, we'll explain later ( next post ). For the time being, let's note that Forks is the most preci...

The Puget Sound with the ferry for Bainbridge (picture taken from our apartment on Vine Street)

The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り, "Festival of the Steel Phallus") is held each spring at the Kanayama Shrine (金山神社 Kanay...

We're late with this review because we're always late---plus, we're early in the sense that the movie hasn't yet been r...

Yesterday Today And in between Yes, we're swapping houses with a family in Seattle, WA, for a month.

We are renting the house for a few days, staying with friends in the meantime. This is the view (we're on the other side of the Ester...