Backroads Bookscouting: Last Hurrah on the Olympic Peninsula
Amazingly, before the car broke down and before the governor reinstated all the coronavirus restrictions, we did get in a small, safe, and socially-distanced bookscouting trip.
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Stay-At-Home Outreach, or Remote Bookscouting
We’re hearing a lot about how to support restaurants who are struggling while we all are staying at home, but honestly I’m more worried about our favorite BOOKSTORES.
Through the Looking Glass
Thinking about Jim’s column about generations and defining events, and measuring my own life experience against it, I realized that almost all of my memories that I think of as ‘defining events’ are about books, comics, and most especially, book STORES. There was one bookstore in particular… sadly, long gone now, but I’ve never forgotten it.
Backroads Bookscouting: Red Planet Edmonds
We journey to the tiny seaside town of Edmonds in search of indie theatre, fine dining, and, of course, books.
A Damn Fine Day in North Bend
In which Julie and I travel out of town to dine out at a moderately famous restaurant and attend a local theatrical production.
Backroads Bookscouting: Twenty-Four Hours on the Peninsula
Although we were forced to spend most of our allotted vacation budget on the car, we ALSO were forced — sort of– to take a fun overnight trip around the Olympic Peninsula. And we found some cool stuff along the way.
Backroads Bookscouting (sort of): A Salem Addendum
As a sort of a follow-up to Greg Hatcher’s bookscouting column last February, here’s a little more about a wonderful antique store in Salem that he missed on his visit.