Covering most of Olympic Peninsula, Olympic National Park encompasses almost a million acres and includes vastly distinct ecosystems. All within the park borders, you can find green rolling mountains with grazing deer, the rugged Pacific coastline, extremely lush old-growth temperate rain forests, and mineral hot springs.
The only national park in Oregon, Crater Lake National Park consists of the namesake Crater Lake and its surrounding areas. Crater Lake formed around 7,700 years ago when the volcano Mt. Mazama erupted in the largest eruption known in the Cascade Volcanic Arc in the past million years.
I started running again two months ago, and I’ve already been feeling much more mentally alert and high-spirited, much more efficient at work, and much more physically in tune.
The first time I watched La La Land was on a plane, and by virtue of being in a loud and cramped environment, I completely missed the atmosphere of the movie. I just watched it again, fully immersed, and I came out of it melancholic, bittersweet, triumphant, and above all, nostalgic.
For my first time in Paris, I went alone. Here are five things not in the guidebooks that I learned from spending 3 days by myself in the City of Love.
The recent TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale has been generating a lot of buzz lately, much of which centers around the realness of the plot - the story is scary because it could actually happen.
