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I always love a city where a sunny day is a cause for celebration. In the Northeast, we’ve always lived that way, we never take a beautiful day for granted. Likewise, and even more so, here in Vancouver, a day with shining sun is a day to get out on […]
Many of the world’s greatest cities are located right on the water. Vancouver’s waterfront is one of its greatest assets with ferries of allsizes crossing many different routes. Yesterday we drove up a little bit north of the city to the lands of the Tsleil Wautuh tribe and met a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
As a life-long resident of a small town in the country, I am usually not drawn to cities. I do love the excitement of New York of course, and am awed by the world’s great metropolises, but most of the time I’d rather be out in the country. My trip […]
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 […]
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 […]
