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Phaux’s Closing Thoughts, Part 1

I am sitting in seatac airport with five’ish hours to go until I liftoff for home, and want to record some thoughts while they are fresh and juicy.
First off, Zoo is a GREAT road mate. Words cannot express his huge contribution to the road trips being extraordinary, but I’ll give it a shot..
He is unflinching [...]

Sleeping in is sooo good.


Sequim, WA and the ferry back…

On our way out of Portland, I decided that I wanted to check out the rumor that Sequim (pronounced “SQWIM”), WA was one of the most wonderful places on earth to live. It was a helluva long drive to get there but the reports of it being sunny when all else is rainy were.. True. They [...]

Mo’ Hawk

I always wanted a pony for Christmas. Now look what I went and did.

Slice o’ Seattle: Chase Jarvis

Well, we woke up and had our liberal dousings of coffee.

After coming around to something approaching normal, we headed north and dropped in on my friend Chase Jarvis. 

Chase was addressing a group of students form the Art Institute of Seattle. We caught the tail end of on inspiring presentation. Chase has a great tradition of posting one [...]

Day1: Timelapse, Seattle to Vancouver

RT4 Day 01 - Seattle to Vancouver from Sir Arthur SpamZalot on Vimeo.

Day 1: Breakfast at Voula’s

After a quick stop at Matt’s buddy’s awesome studio, we headed to Voula’s Offshore Cafe on the say so of his (the buddy’s) lead assistant / weatherman … the producer / marketeer at the studio gave us the heads up as to what exactly to order, and we followed her advice.
Voula’s is in a part [...]

Day 0: Bar Roundup

Before Phauxtog arrived, I ended up walking around Downtown and Belltown and checked out a few bars …
The Tap Room: 160 beers on tap, heavily skewed towards North America. This is not a place to go to pick up women, but an okay place to catch a game. Had some popcorn shrimp, [...]