The kids took my mother to the zoo, where we fed budgies and visited with an excitable kookaburra who kept trying to fly through the glass to say hello:
While Portland represents everything most valuable about growing up and learning to live in a community, Seattle is the city nearest the place I was born.
The Puget Sound offers the most gorgeous landscape I have encountered anywhere in the world. We said goodbye to my mother at the ferry terminal and the sunset made me cry:
