I’ve lived here most of my life, and I hate it. The snowbirding lifestyle of my grandparents gets more appealing every year. Unfortunately if I’m ever able to retire all the Southern states will be on fire and uninhabitable anyway.

And “The Long Dark” doesn’t really hit people until they experience it. Folks think, “Oh, it gets dark at 5 in December/January? No big deal, it’s the same in other places.” But it’s not. 5 o clock winter sunsets here do not generally bring a serene twilight followed by a sky filled with stars - the perpetual cloud cover means it’s pitch-black at 5pm. I go to work and it’s pitch black. I come home and it’s pitch black. It gets to be a drag, and by the time Spring hits we’re all crawling out of our skin to get some of that gorram sunshine!!!

Ever been through the Hoh’s Hall of Mosses? Ever been through the Hoh’s Hall of Mosses on shrooms? (I have, it was a transformative life experience that I will never forget)