When Tom’s alarm went off at 6:00am on Saturday July 19, 2025, I was still thinking about the strange noises I had heard in the night. Those animalistic sounds were loud, as was the rhythmic pounding, and I was certain…
Month: October 2025
337: THE SCENIC PLEASURE OF RIMMING CRATER LAKE WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNALS OF HISTORY
The fourteenth day of our scheduled three-week-long trip began on Friday July 18, 2025 when Tom’s alarm went off at 6:00am in our small room at the Timberline Lodge in Government Camp, Oregon. My photographer, his wife Vicki, and I…
336: FDR AND ME, TOGETHER AT MOUNT HOOD’S TIMBERLINE LODGE
The moment Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Thursday July 17, 2025, I heard his head bang against the knotty pine wall and his knee crack on the bed post in our small room at the Timberline Lodge in Government…
335: A WILD GOOSE CHASE TO SEE MOUNT ST. HELENS TOOK ME THROUGH SASQUATCH’S BACKYARD
It had been a long time since I last saw my photographer get as excited as he was when his alarm rang at 6:00am on Wednesday July 16, 2025. From our hotel room at the Peppermill Inn in downtown Centralia,…
334: FACE TO FACE WITH GEORGE IN WASHINGTON’S CAPITOL WAS A BUST
It was Tuesday morning July 15, 2025 when Tom’s alarm rang and woke my companion’s up at six o’clock sharp. We had spent the past four nights in a Bellevue, Washington VRBO rental, which was a small, three-room basement below…