🚶🏻 City Walker
⛰️ Backpacker
🛣️ Road Tripper
✈️ World Traveller
I love waking up with a view like this. I’ve claimed Peaks and Lakes and Glaciers in The Olympics, Cascades and Rockies.
I was born and raised a traveler.
From my first basket trip to the farm market to traveling Europe with my parents as a child to flying to California alone as a kid, Australia with strangers in high school, Asia with my boyfriend in college, to exploring the farthest corners of the world with my friend Kirina, to popping up alone in any corner of the earth, I have always been an explorer.
TripIt
I use the App, TripIt to track my travel plans. It contently monitors your email and imports flight and hotel confirmations linking them together and creating a Trip which can sync to your Google Calendar (write about this in Travel on Every Tech)
I have been living in and enjoying nature my entire life.
Hikes as a child
Playing in the back yard (treehouse club)
I’m lucky to have called Seattle home for more than two decades since I moved here in 2001 to attend the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
I have spent my time here exploring Seattle’s restaurants, bars, shops, lakes, beaches, roads and trails and making friends with so many great people who call this place home.
Having moved from Connecticut to Oregon in 1997 for high school in the charming Cottage Grove, I have been fortunate to spend most of my life in a region surrounded by mountains, trees, water and seemingly infinite natural beauty.
I love exploring all of Cascadia’s small towns, shopping, dining, wine tasting, tubing the rivers, going on day hikes, and especially waking up on top of mountains on a backpacking or off-roading trip.
I've seen the region’s highs and lows and I'm here for its continued growth. The more I learn about this region's story, people and plans, the more I love it!
I love to share its fun secrets and show it off to others.