Losing the Pacific Northwest – A Travel Year in Review

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Losing a place is different from leaving it. 2025 was not a year of great distances. It was a year of inward movement. Of subtle shifts, of places that can no longer be reached, and of the things that endured. The farewell to the Pacific Northwest runs through everything like a quiet fault line.The PNW... Continue Reading →

31. December 2025 0

Pacific Northwest

"Top left of America" is how a sticker advertises the Pacific Northwest, often abbreviated to PNW. Some stickers explain that Idaho is not part of it, but so be it. My first visit in the 1990s was a round trip around Olympic National Park, home to the only rainforest in the northern hemisphere. I was... Continue Reading →

16. March 2024 0

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