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Once again we set off with the intent to get away from our mundane lives back home convinced that once we are free of the shackles of daily life our true abilities to make the world a better place will soar like a little parakeet at last loosed from the bondage of its cramped, dingy cage with the paper in the bottom that doesn't get changed often enough, and the little seed ball that has become rancid, because the moron spilled water on it two days ago, or was it three... soar up into the bright blue sky for all to admire and say, "By golly, that little parakeet sure is making the world a better place in which to be... down here looking at parakeets."
A bewildering confluence of muddled events and angst-soaked moodiness had me straining at the tethers in anticipation of my yearly May vacation.
Interesting things that aren't necessarily destinations, but make the trip more fun.
Crater Lake National Park - The lake was formed after the collapse of an ancient volcano, posthumously named Mount Mazama. This volcano violently erupted approximately 7,700 years ago.
A collection of sights from around the Seattle metropolitan area.
Steam donkeys are huge steam powered winches used for hauling logs from where they were cut to a location for loading on rail cars. Sometimes, when their usefulness came to an end, it would have been too costly to drag them out of the woods. They were left where they were, only to searched for like hidden treasure decades later.
This parade takes place every year in Fremont on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice. Anyone can be in the parade. The floats must all be human powered. Lots of fun.
Vehicles, memorabilia, and much loved junk.
I think all the kids of the 50's and 60's had a lot of Walt's vision drilled into our skulls via the powerful propaganda machine that was "The Wonderful World of Color". For reasons unknown, it took ahold in some of us a lot deeper and stronger than others.
Jeez. What can I say. Is this an extension with the Disneyland obsession?
A nice state park out between Auburn and Black Diamond
Scappose, St Helens, Warren, Portland, and vicinity
In Seattle Center
Leisure - Free time to be spent as one sees fit,
not given to work or duty.
"But Doug", you ask. "What do you know about fun, cool things to do?" When you're not at work, your sitting in front of your Mac creating these cool web pages and playing games.
"Well...", I reply, chuckling slightly, "I appreciate your keen insight, but this is part of my new push to get some semblance of a life. Not a normal life mind you. For a normal leisure time activity seems to consist of hanging around in dark, smoky taverns playing darts and getting loud and belligerent on {shudder} Budweiser.
I don't think so.
I do have a highly developed appreciation of the absurd and the unusual and this serves me well in identifying those places and activities sure to tickle the fancy. {Fancy tickling???}
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