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June 10, 2015

Bothell Country Village is a quirky outdoor mall in the Seattle suburbs where you can easily get lost wandering from store to store, especially if

November 23, 2014

A recent family vacation in Southern California included a day hike in Joshua Tree National Park and an evening dinner at a nearby In-N-Out, a

October 13, 2014

A passerby took some photos of me while I sketched at Avenida Paulista and emailed them to me within hours. How nice is that! That

September 14, 2014

My stay in Rio during my recent trip to Brazil for the Urban Sketching Symposium was very short, just about 35 hours, but quite memorable

August 20, 2014

Family and friends rarely visit us in Seattle. Most of them live just too far away, either on the East Coast or Spain. But this

July 16, 2013

The number of amazing scenic locations along the Pacific coast between Seattle and San Francisco is too many to count. How do you even start

March 1, 2013

Seattleites who normally plan mid-winter trips to Palm Springs or Hawaii may have a hard time understanding why I went to Duluth, Minn., of all

August 10, 2012

July 23, 2012

Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone, home to the oldest European settlement in the Americas, reminded me a lot of my native country of Spain. First you

September 10, 2008

The New York New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. I can’t really describe how unbelievable the sight of this place is. The buildings here