SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH 2012 | TRAVEL

Living in the Midwest, I've started to find certain things nostalgic: fields of crop, winter, ponds and marsh. And for a while, I thought there was absolutely nothing better than what makes the Midwest, the Midwest. But after visiting the Northwest coast out in Washington and northern California for the first time, somehow life on a harbor with tugboats, foggy overcasts and the smell of fresh open water, somehow that life feels like something I've lived before and my body yearns to be a part that strange reverie.

There was something very mathematically beautiful about the large machinery that stand at the shores, like fractals appearing meticulously beautiful in nature.

It was also the chance to get one step closer to life, a different type of life. Sea life. Its creatures and its human inhabitants, the portal from which a dozen aspects of our lives miles away originate.