Category Archives: Travelogue

Race Weekend in Utica

utica / a thousand threads
It’s always nice to get away, even if its just for a short time. Our trip was full of good food, laughs and lots of long naps… which, after a nonstop couple of weeks, is just what we needed.

And as a little extra bonus, look who we saw!

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2 Comments | Posted on: July 17, 2013 | Category: Running, Travelogue

Don’t Call Portland ‘Weird’

kirk crippens portraitlandia / a thousand threads
As a once and always Oregonian, I have to admit that Portland’s recent rise to fame can sometimes get on my nerves. It’s a little bit like the feeling you might have when your favorite kind-of-secret and kind-of-all-yours band, who you’ve always been able to see up close and personal in the tiniest venues, signs a big fat record deal and sells out in 5 seconds so you can’t even see them at all… the band just doesn’t feel quite like it’s yours anymore… now its identity is shaped by seemingly everyone on earth… people you don’t really feel know the band like you do… who might not have as deep a connection.

It’s the height of selfishness, this feeling, but it happens… and every time I see some new Portland love, I have to admit… it happens to me.

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0 Comments | Posted on: July 11, 2013 | Category: Ramblings, Travelogue

Keeping Oregon Weird

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There’s no place like home. Especially when it looks like this. I can’t tell you how much I wish the east coast could borrow just a little bit of Oregon. I’d be the happiest girl alive.

Of course, I’m biased.

Do you feel the same about your own home state? If you could live anywhere, where would you live?

8 Comments | Posted on: June 3, 2013 | Category: Travelogue

Close Calls

friday favorites / a thousand threads

We’re here! And darn lucky for it – I’ve never had such a close call at an airport and still made my plane. After over an hour at security, we found ourselves begging to cut in line (you – guy on his way to the Middle East – you are amazing, thank you!) then making a run for it.

The whole thing was pretty farcical, really… running running running just to sit on the world’s slowest tram… staring out the window at our plane and driving farther and farther away to the other end of the terminal.

We finally made it with about three minutes to go… but now we’re here! Home – my favorite place in the world. We’ve already had my favorite breakfast and we’re on our way to wine… it just doesn’t get any better.

Here are a few of my favorites this week. I’ll be on the run until Tuesday, but posting the whole way on instagram… so be sure to keep up over there and I’ll be back soon!

Have an amazing weekend!

Eye this gorgeous spring shoot by Ryan Ray (on Ryan’s site here, and Style Me Pretty here).

Buy this perfect summertime tote that I’m coveting like crazy.

Make a pretty painted floral tablecloth.

Bake this tasty rhubarb tart.

Did you see these two on Leno? They’re the cutest.

This amazing mom who photographed her daughter at 5 as the real women she can be.

The prettiest little recipe for one of my favorite drinks.

And if you need to catch up on the week’s news, remember we’ve always got you covered!

5 Comments | Posted on: May 17, 2013 | Category: Life, Travelogue

The Rich History of Wedgeport

bluefin tuna

While in Nova Scotia, we learned all about the rich history of Wedgeport, a now-sleepy fishing village that, once upon a time, hosted celebrities, trail-blazing fishermen (and women) and as many as twenty-eight different countries during its annual International Tuna Cup.  The match was held from 1937 to 1976, and put Wedgeport on the map.

Though it no longer stakes claim to the title of sport tuna fishing capitol of the world, Wedgeport is still quite the little mecca, and continues to attract Anglers from across North America to its Tuna Tournament & Festival each year.  If you’re just dying to hear more (I know you are) you can read all about it at the museum’s website, and even take a virtual tour.

This is it for my Nova Scotia ramblings, I promise, but if you ever get a chance, go… I mean it.  In case it wasn’t obvious, Wedgeport kind of stole my heart.

0 Comments | Posted on: September 19, 2012 | Category: Travelogue

Letters from New Scotland

wedgeport nova scotia dock

Upon landing in Nova Scotia, my first thought was that it looked, and felt, like home.

The province is reminiscent of the place I grew up, with its rolling hills, evergreens, and quaint coastal towns, but that’s not the whole story.

Nova Scotia is a place that makes a person want to stay.

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4 Comments | Posted on: September 19, 2012 | Category: Travelogue

Into the wild blue…

Nova Scotia Bluefin Tuna Fishing / A Thousand Threads

Last Monday, as I dropped our final invitations in the mail, feeling pretty good about my accomplishments, the phone rang.

“So… if you had the chance to do something really amazing, do you think you could get away for a few days?”

(Umm… yes.)

Mark’s boss wasn’t able to make a business trip he’d had in the works for some time, and he needed to send someone in his place.

That person was Mark, but (the seriously cool news) if we were both in, we could both go.

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2 Comments | Posted on: September 18, 2012 | Category: Travelogue

This Place

nova scotia / a thousand threads
It was perfect.

2 Comments | Posted on: September 16, 2012 | Category: Travelogue

Spontaneity

Cottage in Nova Scotia

We’re off to Nova Scotia today (she says, as if this is totally normal).

No really, we had no idea on Monday morning that we would be doing this today, but it was an opportunity we just couldn’t pass up (and a free one at that) so here we go! I promise to return with tons of pictures of this crazy adventure… goodness knows that with two months of planning to go, I could use a little break from the day to day.

In the mean time, be sure to follow my Instagram feed. I’ll be posting as we go.

Oh, did I mention it’s a tuna fishing trip?

I sincerely have no idea what to expect.

Photo: New York Times

5 Comments | Posted on: September 12, 2012 | Category: Travelogue

I ❤ New York


When I was 18, I moved to LA.

I moved from a small town on the coast of Oregon that nobody (save a few fans of Pre — who I also ❤ in case you’re wondering) had ever heard of.  That little town was filled with trees… and clean air… and nice people.

I hated LA.

I hated it with a fiery passion and felt like the concrete was about to swallow me alive.

And then, one day… without notice… I fell in love.

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4 Comments | Posted on: August 7, 2012 | Category: Ramblings, Travelogue

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