My favorite place ever

Ok so I have done a bit of traveling. I think somewhere around 25 countries and only have one continent left to complete them all! I have been so lucky to see amazing things, meet amazing people, and become this person that I love. But there is a place close to where I live that I love! I fall in love with this place more and more every time I go!

I first discovered this love with Taylor back in 05. We had gone down to Portland for a mini Yonder tour and then cruised up the coast on the 101! We stopped for a few days to check out the Olympic Peninsula. Here you find the HOH rain forest. Amazing, huge, colorful, alive, growing and dying. I feel the magic in the air whenever I enter into this place. The trail along the HOH river had become my favorite destination. When someone comes to WA and asks me what they should do, I send them there. I have been back to that magical place 3 more times since then. I took my family, and some friends, and I have spent countless hours on that same trail, and still see something new every time I go.

This time I went with Liam. He has never been! I was excited to show him.










And happy that even though it is November and might be cold and raining we can still go.

Because of Heltrude his VW bus. He put a heater in and it has a stove, making it perfect for winter camping!
We saw a rainbow everyday. We made great food, drank wine, hiked all day! The sun was out and the sky was blue! A rain forest in november and perfect weather! It was great!
The next day we went out and spent some time running away from the waves, and hiked up to hot springs. I went in hot springs for the first time!! I laughed so much when we got dressed to leave our cloths had gotten wet, Liam had to wear my rasta legs! What a sight the two of us where hiking back down to the car. I laugh now just thinking about it!

I really love having someone who likes to do these things with me. Someone who is present, giving, and really cares about me. I continue to fall in love more and more everyday with this amazing man! I look forward to seeing him, even if it was only that morning that we left. He can not get enough of me! I think he would be with me 24/7 if I allowed it. That feels great. At the same time he also lets me be myself, and go out with my friends and do my own thing as well. All my friends love him, and think we are great for each other... I still can't believe it all sometimes hee hee... I am so happy!

Halloween in Denver Colorado!

Halloween has always been a fun holiday for me! I have always spent hours (like 25-60) making my costumes each year. Since moving to Seattle, and growing into this festival goer that I am, costumes have taken on a whole new meaning. My sewing skills have increased and I can now make pants, capes, skirts, shirts, and well anything with a pattern really.. It's kinda exciting! Now I just need a new sewing machine!
When my friend Andrea told me the band Leftover Salmon would be playing in Denver and flights were only 175$ I thought why not!? Then as I chatted to my best friend Taylor in WY and Kelly who had moved to Alabama a month earlier... they liked the idea as well!
So 5 of us would head off to Denver for the weekend.. Oh what fun!
And this year I figured have a group costume would be fun. So I started to think. At first I wanted to be from the future, the jestons neighbors maybe? With a hoop skirt like Judy! Since I just got into making capes.. I thought I could make everyone a cape. We could all be super heroes from the future! Then the little hands headbands I got this summer could help us all match. We could be handy super heroes! Then at a show the week before Andrea and I got inspired by another person wearing the hands, to sew the to middle fingers down to say I love you in sign language! So then we became the Super handy love heroes from the future!They all got so into it! They even let me paint their faces!

Taylor was the conductor of the love train! All aboard!!

Keller was farmer love.. planting the seeds of love!

Andrea and I were do love and be love... be cause together we are a do-be and everyone loves that!
My skirt even had lights (how so burning man of me!)

It was a blast to be with all my friends somewhere new!

We went hiking in the snow to a lake. It was nice, calm, peaceful.

I got to spend a little time with my good friend who I hiked on the Appalachian trail with "42" or Nira in the outside world.

Saturday night Taylor and I went by ourselves to see Jamie Janover wih Lynx, Zilla, and EOTO and Kang played with them too. It was so much fun! I danced so hard! That music really makes my feet and body move non-stop! I loved it!!
What a perfect, sunny, wonderful weekend, filled with friends, music, and costumes!