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My Final Salishan Gaming Event

I haven't written about my Salishan gaming retreats in a while (since 2011 I think) but having just held my final one I think I should wrap things up with a...

Salishan Gaming Late 2011

Earlier this month I hosted my 6th gaming weekend out at Salishan for my local gaming buddies (see prior outings: 2005, early 2007, late 2007, 2008, early 2...

Salishan Gaming Photos

I posted some better photos from the Salishan gaming weekend. Here are a few of the choice picks.

Salishan Gaming 2011 - Day 3

Today was another banner day. A great mix of deep longer games with light fare, good food and friends, and some excellent aged bourbon. The day started with ...

Salishan Gaming 2011 - Days 1 and 2

KC and Rita arrived at my Sherwood home late Thursday afternoon and after stopping for happy hour at the 101 Roadhouse we were at Salishan and ready to dive ...

Salishan Gaming 2008

I hosted what has become an annual gaming event at our Salishan home

Thanksgiving in Salishan

I’m back at Salishan this weekend - three trips in less than a month after not visiting for over two months! We had a great Thanksgiving weekend here with th...

Salishan Weekend

We’ve had a great relaxing weekend here at the coast. The weather was sunny, warm, and calm on Friday and we met some Sherwood friends for some tide pool act...

Salishan Gaming 2007

I hosted another fantastic weekend of gaming about a weekend ago at Salishan.  We enjoyed our largest crowd ever, peaking at about 15 people, and though thin...

Salishan Gaming Wrapup

Chairman Mike did a fabulous job writing up our recent gaming weekend out on the coast, but I still wanted to share some of the impressions of the games I pl...

Blogging and Photos for My Gaming Weekend

I’m hosting a great crowd of friends out at our beach house at Salishan this weekend.  We are all quite chilly hear at the house waiting for the gas to be tu...

Burndown at the Beach

I’m late writing this up, but we had a great time out at the coast last weekend.  The weather improved on Friday allowing us to spend some time playing footb...

Salishan

We are driving out to the coast to checkout the house and make sure everything is kosher after the heavy rains this week. There’s a high wind advisory tonigh...

Harbor Seals at Salishan

I thought I’d share some nice photos taken last Sunday morning at the northern tip of Salishan spit.  This is where the harbor seals and sea lions like to co...

Thanksgiving at Salishan

I worked a half day on Wednesday and we hit the road by about 2pm, arriving at the coast around 4pm.  Surprisingly, we beat Jan and David here by about 30 mi...

What to Bring to the Coast for Thanksgiving?

Tomorrow afternoon we’ll load up the car and drive out to the coast for Thanksgiving weekend, which we’ll spend with Jan and David.  We’ll be sure to get som...

Beach Weekend

After returning from my trip to Israel, and thanks to a rare lack of scheduled baseball games, we worked in a weekend out at the beach.  The weather was spec...

Salishan Gaming, Day 2

All right folks, this one’s coming at you photo-blog style.  On Saturday Eric was able to join us for most of the day - proving that you can get in a solid d...

Salishan Gaming, Day 1.5

Let’s see, where was I… Have I mentioned that work has been pretty busy lately?  I’m at the point where I almost feel guilty taking any time to write entries...

Salishan Gaming, Day 1

Last weekend I had a small group of friends out at the beach house for some gaming.  This is my mostly regular gaming group, the RipCityGamers, and was an ex...

Canoeing Near Siletz Bay

We finally got out into the estuary waters around Siletz Bay.  Dave is out here for a group weekend with my regular group that I scheduled a while back as a ...

Video Tour of the Salishan House

Now for something a bit different.  Using the great Microsoft Photo Story 3 tools I created a narrated slideshow / video of the Salishan home.  There are low...

Salishan for Thanksgiving

Julie, the boys, and I drove out to Salishan today for Thanksgiving weekend.  Jan and David came out on Sunday and we are all very excited to have our first ...

Weekend at Salishan

We managed to spend Fri-Sun this weekend at Salishan.  We mixed in a bit of housework with some fun - best of all, Jan and David (Julie’s mom and step-dad) w...

More Salishan Photos

I’ve had a few requests from family and friends for more pictures of the house in Salishan.  We were able to spend the weekend there again, doing some more w...

Salishan

Last week Julie and I, along with her mother (Jan) and stepfather (David), closed on a home in Salishan, near Lincoln City, OR.  This was originally an idea ...