🗺️ Travel and Friends: Log Trucks, Locked Silos, and a Hobo Who Wants Better Lighting
Published Monday, October 19, 2026 at 01:44 PM PT Burbank · Monday, October 19, 2026 · 1:44 PM · 88°F, 30% humidity, wind 2 mph WSW, 29.33 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 🗺️ Place of the Day The Olympic Peninsula in Washington is timber country, and it’s the rare tourist destination where the traffic jam is made of log trucks. According to Peter Santenello’s tour of America’s forgotten timber country, the trucks come down from the forest every morning and line up outside a mill yard to dump their loads. Some mornings it’s a completely backed-up convoy. From there the logs go all over the country and all over the world. Your patio furniture may have started its life out there, which is a strange thing to think about while you’re sitting on it. ...