Upon graduation, I returned to the Seattle area after landing a job managing professional development programs for educators. This job literally required working in a different city five days a week. Forking out the monthly fee for an apartment to use a few nights a month seemed ridiculous. I convinced my grandparents to let me take over the dilapidated cottage on their property that had sat vacant for more than 30 years while collecting various family odds and ends. After spending the summer cleaning, painting, laying carpet over the downstairs concrete floor and making the space my own, I had a place to call home. The cottage, or "The Little House" as we called it, two stories and tiny measuring 10' x 20' with about a 300 usable square feet. Because of its vintage, it was still connected to a septic system which could not legally be used for sewage and the price tag for connecting to the sewer was far out of my means. I settled for a shower and sink, storage in lieu of a toilet, a tree in the backyard for # 1, and a walk to my grandparents for # 2! Somehow, I managed to call this home for five years while traveling for work, completing a Master's program and shacking up with a fun girl who now happens to be my wife.
Fast forward 15 years and this adventurous kid is now a husband and father of two very active and rather adventurous girls who love the idea of camping, but like to have things like running water, a way to charge the ipad, and toilet nearby. This is where our story begins...
Cascade Mountains, WA
New Year's in Washington's Cascade Mountains
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