After years of threatening to do it, I’ve hit the road for a very long foray. Over the next several months I’ll be traveling the U.S. seeking fungi and chasing stories. In addition to finding baskets full of mushrooms, I’m hoping to tell the stories of some of the nation’s most interesting mushroom hunters along …
Earlier this month, I had the luxury of spending a week in Uruguay, exploring the country’s wines. Bounded by Brazil and Argentina, the Atlantic Ocean and the Uruguay River, this small South American country is big on flavor. Despite it’s relatively flat terrain—the tallest hill is roughly 1,600 feet high—the wines I tasted we remarkably …
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Why take the easy way out of town when you can add hours of driving to the trip? Because the recent rain had promised the prospect of mushrooms, that’s why. So, for that reason instead of taking I-90 out of Seattle for the last time, I southeast, caravanning toward Mt. Rainier National Park with my …