After many failed attempts, we finally made plans for Brooke and the kids to meet me after a job. I couldn't wait to see killer bee and my little runts out in Washington State. I'd been on the road working for over a week at this point. My parents stayed an extra day just to take us to the airport.  Ready to go.  Meanwhile I made it back up to Spokane after a day of shooting 360s down in Pullman. Guess we'll never forget which car is ours.  I laughed when I first saw it. Couldn't wait for Brooke and the kiddos reaction. We stayed the night at the Steam Plant Hotel. I'd stayed here when I shot 360s at Gonzaga University back in the spring. Seemed like a good, cheap option. The rooms are simple and do the job. I liked that this place provided ear plugs but only because the walls are paper thin. I could hear everything our neighbors were saying. I wanted to stay on Minnesota time and made us get up at 6am. I'm sure our neighbors loved that.  I'm sure we loved t...

My next shoot for CampusReel took me back to Washington state for a shoot at, well, Washington State University down in Pullman. After a cross-continental day of flying from Boston to Spokane (via Minneapolis) I drove down to the southeast corner of the Evergreen State. The area between Spokane and Pullman was mostly rolling hills. It didn't look too different than parts of North Dakota. Eventually I made it to Colfax where I stopped and took some pictures. Apparently Colfax is the county seat. The courthouse featured some great deco architecture. 20 minutes later and I was at the Hotel McCoy in Pullman. There seem to be a lot of rad updated motels in Washington.

  While Scott was on yet another work trip, the kids and I took advantage of the last days of Bread and Pickle being open.  Biking with Theo can sometimes be very frustrating. He likes to yell and give up easily. Pecan has recently discovered that we store her food in the back staircase. When we're not looking she sneaks out when you open the door and gets into her food. The rare times Meadow and Theo play together.

So it was our 15th Anniversary this year. I tried talking Brooke into coming with me on my longest work trip of the year, but we decided that the whole family would travel to Washington state instead.  So I was on my own for a week or so starting in Burlington, Vermont. My actual first destination was Potsdam, New York, but it was either a flight into Syracuse or Burlington and my schedule worked better to fly in via Vermont.  After getting some ramen at Burlington's Ichiban I made my way up north around Lake Champlain to New York state. My route took me through Rouses Point, New York. I had crossed that invisible line that separates New England from New York. I'm not sure I'd ever quite seen architecture quite like this. It felt like a yankee take on New Orleans architecture. After breezing through Chateaugay, Malone and a number of small almost Canadian cities, I made it to Potsdam. The town was full of Italian joints, so of course I got dinner at Lee's Hawaiian Gril...