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Bring in Spring at the 2024 Northwest Flower and Garden Festival

The annual Northwest Flower and Garden Festival is going on from February 14 – 18 at the Seattle Convention Center. Here are some of the highlights from the magnificent garden displays at the festival.

Installing Garmin Varia RCT715 on places other than your seatpost

Using the Garmin Varia RCT715 Bike Radar When You Can’t Install it On Your Seatpost

The Garmin Varia RCT715 (and other Garmin Varia radar units) are great for improving safety — or at least your feeling of it — on the road. However, they’re designed to be installed on your seatpost. What if your bike setup doesn’t allow for that? Here are some possible solutions.

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Do you need bike radar? No…but after you get it, you might not want to go back.

Bike radar devices can make you feel safer if not actually be safer. Let’s take a look at some of the major bike radar devices available on the market.

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Garmin Varia RCT715 Review: Bike Radar That Also Records Video

The Garmin Varia RCT715 is a bike radar device and tail light that also records video of approaching vehicles and detetcts incidents. Does it make you safer? It makes me at least feel safer. Here’s a review.

Port Townsend Rose Theater Starlight Room

Port Townsend’s Starlight Room is a classy moviegoing experience.

Comfortable seats, chandeliers, popcorn with REAL butter, and craft beers make going to Port Townsend Rose Theater’s Starlight Room a way to see a movie in style.

PNW Cycling Events Calendar

Cycling Events in Washington State and the PNW

Want to find a cycling event in Washington State? We’ve edited, and are republishing, this post about cycling events through the year in the PNW (mostly in Washington State).

Sasquatch during Victorian Country Christmas at the Washington State Fairgrounds

Puget Sound and Western WA Holiday Events 2023: Christmas Lights, Gift Shows,Theater, near Seattle…ish.

Here’s our list of holiday events to check out — near Seattle, and beyond depending what our users submit. Christmas lights, concerts, gift shows — find something to make your holidays sparkle.

Duncansby Stacks in Scotland North Coast 500

Scotland’s North Coast 500: An Ongoing Interactive Map (and a list of posts related to our adventure)

This is an ongoing post with a Scotland’s North Coast 500 map and a post list. That is, we are gradually adding markers and posts as we write about our adventure.

A bald eagle cries out at Big Beef Creek in Seabeck, WA.

Bald Eagles at Big Beef Creek: “It’s that Seabeck time again.”

Every year in late May and early June, a number of bald eagles come to Big Beef Creek in Seabeck with the morning low tide.

remarkably bright creatures

Remarkably Bright Creatures Book Review

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt, set in a fictional town a couple hours north of Seattle, is a good read if you like: books set in the PNW, the giant pacific octopus, or feel good reads. This is a brief review.

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Camping On Orcas Island (and Other Things to Do While You’re There)

Orcas Island is the largest of the San Juan Islands — and a great place to camp. Here’s a brief post about camping spots on the island and a few other things to do while you’re there as well!

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Finding Wintering Trumpter Swans in Northwest Washington State

Every winter trumpeter swans from Alaska and northern British Columbia migrate to the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a bit more informaiton on these, the heaviest of flying bird, and where to find them in western Washington State.

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