With my wife Katie enrolled in a graduate certificate program, we knew that our summer travels would take us to the Pacific Northwest. Naturally this meant I got to plan a Pacific Northwest baseball road trip! Katie will spend a month in Portland, Oregon, before I meet her there. We will spend a week together in Portland before traveling to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, we will work together at a sports camp, and she will do more work to complete her certification. So our Pacific Northwest baseball road trip will span two states and four weeks. Baseball games Our travels in Oregon and Washington are built around my wife’s academic/work…
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My night with the Portland Sea Dogs – April 7, 2017
The springtime cliché is that April showers bring May flowers, and I’m sure that is the case for many people and places. For me, April brings the AAG Annual Meeting and usually early-season baseball games. As covered in a post previewing my trip (read it here), early April meant leading a field trip of fellow geographers to attend a Portland Sea Dogs game and meeting up with baseball author Josh Pahigian (Twitter: @JoshPahigian). I had hoped to have about 20 people sign-up for the field trip, but alas only seven people besides myself registered for the trip. So instead of riding in a bus, I ended up renting a minivan…
