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Lovelocks in Gig Harbor

Last week, the kids and I stumbled on a lovelock bridge right here in Gig Harbor. We’d just gotten our wiggles out by running down the big grassy slope at Donkey Creek Park, then headed up to North Harborview Drive when the distinct glint of boxy brass and steel caught our eye. Sure enough, roughly 150 padlocks hung from the crisscross of cables between the guard rails of the 2013 city bridge over Donkey Creek.

mom in blue coat standing at baseball game with kids

Posted in As Seen In Gig Harbor Now, Tacoma, Washington Adventures

As Seen in Gig Harbor Now: Tacoma Rainiers at Cheney Stadium

Yep, that’s right. Bowen and I took the kids to see everyone’s favorite minor league baseball team, the Rainiers, at Tacoma’s Cheney Stadium. And it was surprisingly family-friendly!

Read on for the full list of everything kiddo approved there.

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As Seen in Gig Harbor Now: Harbor Family Park, a Forest of Fun

This family-friendly bit of nature is open to the public from dawn to dusk and quickly immerses visitors into a world of leafy forest fauna, a criss-cross of fallen tree trunks on the sidelines, and at least one manmade stick fort.

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As Seen in Gig Harbor Now: Crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge with Kids

This story was published in the Feb. 9, 2023 installment of our new Gig Harbor Now news column. The topic, crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was originally published here on the blog in 2022, and then updated for the paper last week.

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As Seen in Gig Harbor Now: The Kids’ Gig Playground

NOTE: This story was originally published in the Jan. 27, 2023 edition of online news organization Gig Harbor Now for my new bi-weekly Column!

Read on to discover all the fun secrets built into this hidden gem of a playground in Gig Harbor.

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Newly Family Adventure Column in Gig Harbor Now

I’m happy to report that my very first Washington newspaper column is on the cover of Gig Harbor Now today. In fact, my blog posts will regularly appear in this hyperlocal news site as we officially launch a Two In Tow column twice a month to tell stories about places to take kids in and around Gig Harbor.