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Want to Know Where to Go in Vancouver? Find BCRobyn!

Want to Know Where to Go in Vancouver? Find BCRobyn!

Robyn Hanson was the perfect choice to show me this city.  Known on Twitter as BCRobyn, and she’s been a TripAdvisor destination guide and has been a booster/fan and a lover of all things Vancouver her whole life. I got a chance to see the city through her eyes last […]

Village Books Shows How Dynamic and Exciting a Bookstore Can Be

Village Books Shows How Dynamic and Exciting a Bookstore Can Be

There are some key ingredients that make a great town or city.  Right up there on the list is having a top-notch bookstore.  Village Books, in Bellingham’s Fairhaven neighborhood, is an institution that’s made this enclave of century-old brick buildings a better place since 1980.  Many of the store’s employees […]

Haunted Fairhaven: Meeting Orbs and Learning about the Ghosts

An orb in Fairhaven, WA.

Taimi Dunn Gorman met us in the ground floor lobby of the Victorian era Sycamore Square building in Fairhaven, a glass of wine beside her and a glowing device on the table. The TV-remote sized machine picks up waves that ghosts make, and she has used in during her research […]

Dorie and John Belisle’s Bellewood Acres: Doing Everything with Apples

Dorie and John Belisle’s Bellewood Acres: Doing Everything with Apples

From the top of her deck, Dorie Belisle showed me the sweep of farms and the array of crops that this part of Washington raises…to the left, a herd of holstein milking cows, then blueberry and raspberry bushes, then pumpkins, potatoes, apples, and on and on. We were touring the […]

In Minneapolis, I Saw the Future of Airport Restaurant Dining

When I missed the connection to my shuttle from Seattle Tacoma airport up to Bellingham, Washington today, I had a chance to sit for a while in a small bar called the Pilot House. At the bar, the first thing I asked for was a Seattle beer–Nope, don’t have it. […]

Off to Washington State, Home of Pot Tourism?

Off to Washington State, Home of Pot Tourism?

I am about to break one of my own rules. I usually try very hard to have the last trip’s story up and done before I embark on another. But early Saturday, I’ll fly out to Seattle and then begin a trip to Bellingham and to Vancouver, British Columbia. I […]

A Day in Coffee Country with Men Who Live the Bean

A Day in Coffee Country with Men Who Live the Bean

I found my essential moment of this exciting trip through prosperous and friendly Colombia…It came while I looked up at the steep green hills of the Corcora Valley while standing on the back of an old Willy’s Jeep, driving down a tree-lined country road. Yes that was it. We were […]

A Day in the Salt Mines

A Day in the Salt Mines

It’s the most popular tourist attraction in Colombia. It’s nearly 600 feet down underground. It was built in 1992 and the 127 miners who helped build it are memorialized with holes drilled behind a cross. It’s the Cathedral of Salt, about an hours drive outside of Bogota.  Outside of the […]

After Years of Being Shunned, Colombians Are On the Move

After Years of Being Shunned, Colombians Are On the Move

It’s always exciting to be in the company of people who are high on living in a certain place, especially when they’ve changed countries just to live there.  Last night we had a large table at the Hilton and Sandro Leopardi told us all about his life’s journey that brought […]

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