This just in: the road trip is still in progress and gradually getting sillier. In our whoosh across the Northwest, we’ve walked a weimeraner in the pouring rain, watched five-year-olds on a backyard zipline, stood in the sopping updraft of a Cascades waterfall, glissaded on the shoulders of Mt. Rainier, flown over Mt. St. Helens in a plane that might once have been a VW bug, explored a basalt cave, and found some amusing uses for lichen.
Actual news reports may resume next week. Thanks for waiting.
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Actual reports may (?!) resume?
Hugh, that´s a great look for you – I think that you should grow a real one 🙂
Where are my St. Helens and Rainier photos?! The volcanoes are of course the most important part of this trip….
(also, be careful in the planes, the fly-over hazard of MSH was upgraded today!)
i second soterrey…
the connection is indisputable. your latest publicity shoot reveals clearly that your grandfather was indeed George Bernard Shaw. them’s good genes you’ve got, hugh.
the mummbler