Seattle/WA Recommendations from @luzboni...

Hello everybody! I just had to post this really, really good information for those who may be headed to the Seattle area. It’s actually from @luzbonita – a really cool girl whom I’ve never met in person, just online. (And we live in the same area…!) Anyway, when she heard we were going up to Seattle, she sent us an awesome email with detailed info on what to do. So I’m sharing this info, with her permission here. She may have a future career in tourism maybe? Hope you get a chance to do some of this stuff! Thanks Luz! (P.S. Some of the movies...

U Can’t Touch This...

I grew up in the Bay Area. That means that when you’re in high school, any band or rapper or singer that is from this Area is the best, and you’ll defend them to all your east coast buddies. Well, at least that’s how it was in the 90′s. So I’ll just say it – I saw MC Hammer in concert in Oakland – his home town. [For more, click below.]...

Travel Time...

West Coast Tour Brent, Cadie and I just returned from a 5-day trip that actually turned into 12 days. Holy cow! We had lots of fun doing our ‘West Coast Tour’, I’ll call it. We started up in Seattle for Thanksgiving and stayed a few days afterwords hanging out with family and friends. We ate at this cool diner that Brent’s cousins saw on the FoodNetwork’s Diners, Dives & Drive-In’s. Way good. We saw Brent’s old high school buddy & wife, and I got to go to my FAVORITE coffee shop in Seattle: Vivace!! (What-up Vivace...

Chocolate you can feel good about...

Firstly, if you have a few minutes, you’ve got to read this article in the NY Times: When Chocolate is a way of life. Monica Kramer recently sent Brent and I an email (and link to that article) about those cacao bean farms in Ecuador. Here’s an excerpt from her email: I saw this article in the New York Times and thought of you…  It’s the little guys like this who can benefit from the the social media services your company offers so I thought I would pass this info along… Wouldn’t it be great if they could do weekly video broadcasts...

This one time in El Salvador…...

Have you ever woken up to the sound of automatic guns firing off? (All my homies from the ghetto say “Ay!”) That’s really not a common occurrence in my life, and I’m very thankful for that. But this has happened to me once before (unfortunately I’ve awoken to the sound of ‘regular’ guns firing off a few more times). I’m reminded of this incident on this day that we vote here in the USA. The year was 1994. Were you alive then? I sure was. :0) I was in post-civil war San Salvador. The utter chaos of a 12 year war had...