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    Rare Air Episode 15: Tongue Point, Washington, Part Three

    July 1, 2016 - By Roger D.

    To me, the Olympic Peninsula is one of those places that is so powerful, its presence shines through in every word written there, and in every other sensation it is possible to possess and experience.

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    Rare Air Episode 14

    May 1, 2016 - By Roger D.

    Annie Dillard: "The difficulty and expense of reaching Puget Sound at all, from anywhere on the planet earth including Oregon, had drawn men and women as hard as mules, whose arrival proved their endurance."

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    Rare Air Episode 7: Boone Woods

    March 2, 2015 - By Roger D.

    By this summer's end, we'll leave this place, and although we are holding onto this home and property for now, there's no guarantee we'll return. So now you can understand what I'm on about...

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    Rare Air Episode 6: Sol Duc River

    December 26, 2014 - By Roger D.

    As you take this in, you too are part of our wondrous life’s journey that makes us stop so often to say, "life is good," and "we just might be the luckiest people alive."

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    Rare Air Episode 4: Fort Flagler State Beach

    September 1, 2014 - By Roger D.

    The day was sunny and warm in monumental ways… so that the vacation seemed to have turned over a new leaf.

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    Rare Air Episode 3: Kalaloch Beach

    August 3, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Kalaloch Beach, captured June 16, 2014.

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    Rare Air Episode 2: Quinault Rain Forest

    July 5, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Time in nature = sacred saturation.

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    Rare Air Episode 1: Shoshone National Forest

    June 10, 2014 - By Roger D.

    I hope you'll find something inspiring and perhaps somehow educational in these videos, and that some additional aspects of the world may find you through them.

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