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Main Posts

Should YOU build your own bike?

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: March 24, 2025
Should you build your own bike from the frame up? I did, and I’m not a bike mechanic. Here’s my opinion, after having done so, along with a few thoughts on what you’ll need to be able to do so.
Events

Brass Screw Consortium Steampunk Festival

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By: Guest Event Organizer
Last Modified: March 24, 2025
June 13, 2025 – June 16, 2025 @ All Day – Brass Screw Consortium 2025 full steam ahead! Tickets are now available for Port Townsend’s annual Steampunk Festival, June 13-15, 2025! Join us for a weekend of chronologically discontiguous adventure where Pirates, Aetherists, Outcasts, and Bodgers clash in whimsical games of skill and wit. Shenanigans include the Friday night Den of Iniquities with variety acts, burlesque, […]
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Places

Mackay’s Rooms

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: January 31, 2025
Mackay’s offers luxury accomodations in Durness, Scotland.
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Routes

Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park in Port Townsend: A Great Bird Walk

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: January 31, 2025
Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park in Port Townsend is a great walk — especially for birdwatching or bird photography!
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Wikis/Glossary

Cedar Waxwing

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: February 24, 2025
The Cedar Waxwing is a bird typically found in the PNW (and many other places easy to identify by its black mask, crest and silky-looking yellow and brown plumage, sometimes with red-tipped feathers (which is how it got its name!)
Books and Book Reviews

Review of Red Rising

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: January 8, 2025
A review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
Trivia Quizzes

Vintage Seattle Trivia Quiz

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By: Cheryl
Last Modified: February 28, 2025
Test your knowledge of Seattle in times gone by with our short Vintage Seattle trivia quiz.
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