Where can I find good beer in New York City? On my last trip I made a few stops that served local microbrews including Sixpoint Craft, Captain Lawrence and Kelso of Brooklyn. I even visited Sixpoint, in the Red Hook district.

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John Steinbeck wrote that redwoods, once seen, “leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always – from them comes silence and awe.” As we walked among them in several groves along the 31-mile long “Avenue of the Giants”, we could only echo Steinbeck’s emotion. It ‘s one thing to walk among the ruins of civilizations gone millennia ago amidst noisy shutterbugs and souvenir hawking vendors – it is another to touch the tallest and oldest living things in creation in a peaceful green gallery and feel time itself.

This is exactly what I feel when I visit these forests. My times in the Redwood Forest are some of the most memorable and inspiring I’ve ever had. When I am there I become quiet, realizing that my busy-ness and my striving to become important is not as important as I perceive it. My place in this world is not the center, and I am much less important than I have thought. But this is not a bad thing, it brings me to become less selfish, more caring, and more compassionate of a person. The joys of Friluftsliv.

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Double Feature Sci-Fi Movie Recommendation #05 is based off my observations of tourists at Yellowstone National Park. I want to recommend movies where tourism goes horribly wrong. Read on for details…

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Click on the image above to go to the Portland Breweries Google Map that I created.
Portland is known as Beervana and the Microbrew Mecca of the Planet so I thought I’d make a google map of all the various breweries here in the main city region (not suburbs). The map shows breweries only; if it’s [...]

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On my trip east of Portland I saw the Baldwin Saloon’s antique bar, landscape paintings used as propaganda for manifest destiny, trains, and Hood River’s Full Sail Brewery

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