sub·urb ˈsəbərb/ noun an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one. Fact – the scariest of all suburbs have all the streets named for trees. The suburb which I now occupied had only tree named streets. And there were only two housing plans used. The one story suburban ranch style and the two … Continue reading The Perfect Burb
Well, I suppose it had to happen but it was a bad time for the bridge to get stolen. The Astoria-Megler bridge was, if anything, over built. On the sky line it’s very imposing, unless it’s raining and unfortunately it’s almost always raining, but normally it is very grand. It doesn’t go anywhere. It was billed as “the bridge to nowhere” which seemed great at the time all six miles of it spanning the great Columbia River from Astoria Oregon to the very grim Dysmal Nitch.
The Black Lake obstacle run is the hardest in the United States. People show up for it completely unaware they’re about to take part in it and mill around until shoved out onto the path and someone – usually an older rather robust person from Dallas Texas shouts, “GO” directly into their face. Some need a shove to get going.
