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Easy Italian Pasta Salad

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This is the salad. The salad I will make for every party this summer. There is NO chopping involved. You read that right. Pull out your sharpened kitchen shears and cut every single ingredient in this recipe. I even bought triple rinsed baby spinach so basically, I just snapped my fingers and there was a pasta salad sitting in front of me.

Mix up a light oil and vinegar based dressing while the pasta cooks and you’re practically done. Toss it and throw it in a favorite travel party bowl. What? Don’t you have one of those? Anyway, snap that lid on tight and refrigerate it overnight to really let the flavors meld. Check it in the morning to see if it needs a splash of dressing and you’re off! Prepare for the praise.  Continue reading …

Welcome June {2018}

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Near the beginning of each month we like to pause and take a look at what’s going on in the world around us, with a particular focus on animal activity, farmers’ fields, and environmental holidays. You can find our archive of previous welcomes here .

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Welcome June! It’s always with equal parts anticipation and apprehension that I welcome June each year. It’s the start of summer, but for some reason that always signals the beginning of the end type of feelings for me. This doesn’t happen with any other season and that’s how I know that summer is truly my number one.

I’m not prone to anxiety, but I really was feeling it this past week. I had just spent two awesome weekends camping, hiking, surfing, and exploring quaint little towns. Sounds awesome, right? But then my mind starting reeling, what am I going to do the rest of the summer? Will I have time for fun? I better plan it! I can’t waste it! These thought patterns are so unlike me that it caught me off guard. In order to stop the rumination, I sat down and figured my shit out. Continue reading …

Seasoned View Vol. 31

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Each month we share our Seasoned View.  Snapshots of nature taken by the Seasoned sisters and shared with you for use as desktop or cellphone screen savers.

You can upload one or all of these photos to use as your desktop background or even as phone and tablet wallpapers.  These images were all shot near the tiny coastal town of Tofino in British Columbia on Vancouver Island this past month. To use the images, simply right-click on the photo, save it, and set it as your background.  Enjoy!

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Two Bits

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Happy Friday from the road! We’re both headed off on adventures today and I can tell by our exclamation laden texts that we’re feeling full, happy, and content with how our days are being spent lately.

Kate’s off to the Lake Tahoe area and I’m headed to Bend, Oregon for the first time. I’m amped to explore a new city, but also terrified of falling in love with yet another place. Oh the struggle.

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Exploring Coastal Rocks and Tidal Pools in Tofino, BC

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If you’re interested in things to do in Tofino, here’s a neat hike with the final destination being an old bomber plane. If you want to explore another tidal pool, I highly recommend a visit to Cannon Beach, Oregon.

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Last weekend, I camped at Green Point Campground near Tofino, BC. Beyond surfing, skim boarding, biking, and hiking, there are plenty of beaches to comb and coastal tide pools to explore. I really enjoyed climbing around on the rocks between North Chesterman and South Chesterman beach. This area is also known as Frank Island, but you are able to access it by land, no need to cross water to reach it. Continue reading …

Hiking the Bomber Trail near Tofino, BC

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We write about hiking a lot. Hiking in all seasons, hiking in many different states, day hiking and weekend backpacking, hiking with kids, hiking and photography, etc, here are all our hiking posts. 

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This past weekend, I went on a rad little hike. This time it wasn’t the scenery that made it extra special, it was the destination, an old bomber plane crash site. The plane was a Royal Canadian Air Force Canso 11007 that crashed shortly after takeoff on February 12, 1945. Apparently the engine malfunctioned causing the plane to crash into the trees just south of Radar hill, about a dozen kilometers south of Tofino, BC. There were 12 people onboard, they all survived the crash and were rescued 11 hours after going down. I’m betting most people will read this article for the pertinent information since the trail is ‘unofficial’ so I’m going to get right to it. Continue reading …

Two Bits

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Sarah here :

Happy Friday! It’s the freakin’ weekend baby I’m about to have me some fun. How is it possible that a hit song from 2003 runs through my head every single Friday? Do you have a Friday song? Maybe share it with me. I need a new one. Believe me I *never* actually play R. Kelly’s Ignition, but you better believe it’s on repeat in my rumination brain every weekend. Eeek!

I digress. What is all this fun I’m about to have? I’m headed to Vancouver today! It’s my first time ever and I’m still in disbelief that it’s going to happen. My bf presented the idea a month ago and at the time I was so stressed at the thought of it, a vacation during a vacation?! How could I afford that? Then I realized the true question was how could I justify that? Isn’t that what we spend so much of our precious time and energy doing? Justifying.

We justify our spending whether it’s time, attention, or money. We justify our words and our actions. We justify our decisions. What if we all just strived to come from a place of truth that felt right and good and just to us? Then could we chill out with all the justifying? I’m trying it on for size. After the intitial, ‘OMG, I can’t afford that and I don’t deserve that!’ conversation, I called back and we planned the trip. We’ll be camping and hiking and surfing our holiday weekend away and it’s going to be swell.

Have a good one friends!

photo by my bestie Saleem Ahmed

Bloody Mary Basics

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If you’re not there yet, it’s time to add some ice and alcohol to those drinks, it’s BMT – Bloody Mary Time. Every Saturday at the beach starts the same way, Bloody Marys for everyone and some sweet juice drink for our brother who refuses to treat his tastebuds to the best brunch cocktail. Forget about him.

Today we’re (re)sharing our Bloody Mary basics because even if you’re not a fan, if you have any hope of charming the in-laws or being revered by your friends, this is pretty much all you got. Start simple by following the general guidelines in this post and then go big by infusing your own alcohol and crafting some Rosemary Vodka & Herb Bloody Marys at your next get together. Continue reading …

Read With Me : You are a Badass

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Want to know something neat? Each time you click through to Amazon from our website, we are kicked back a few cents from each purchase with no extra cost to you. If you ever feel like going wild on Amazon, click through from our site and you’ll be supporting us at the same time! Thanks, yo.

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All hail 2018, the year of the book. You will hear me say this about every possible temperature, weather pattern, and month, but spring is the best time to pull out a book! If it’s going to be raining for a week straight, don’t get caught staring out the window, lose yourself in a book. That’s our attitude at least. I’ve finished a few this past month and I keep wanting to reach for old favorites rather than something new. I might have to read Buddha’s Brain for the fourth time. It’s nice to fall into something comfortable and familiar every once in a while.

Our Read With Me Series is going strong this year, here are all the past installments. Today I’m sharing my thoughts on hugely successful Jen Sincero and her book You are a Badass. Initially, I had some doubts about this book. I felt it was pushy and a little bit bossy or sharp in a way, but after two chapters I became accustomed to the tone and really respected her insight. I think it just took some getting used to at first. I received this book as a gift, so I didn’t really want a kick in the ass at first, but once I found myself shaking my head yes over and over again, I listened hard and took lots of notes. Continue reading …