Any day now, my first grandchild will be born. It’s an exciting time, yet I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic for the days in which my own children, Erin and Patrick, were small. Looking back through the years, many of my happiest memories are of travel with my kids. It’s amazing to loo…
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
Paris in the fall? Paris anytime is the right time.
John Denver wasn’t kidding — the Rocky Mountains, in any season, are spectacular.
Dubai is a showstopper city that marvels every time. A frequent stopover city, many travelers deplane here for only a day or two as they head for farther-afield places like India, Africa and, for me most recently, the Maldives.
“You beat cancer by how you live. ...”
The Olympic Peninsula is a vast piece of our state; its beaches and lakes, great hikes and temperate rainforest are alluring. This special place is also a great family vacation locale, as you can easily squeeze in a ton of fun over a long weekend.
This October, I was wildly fortunate to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to London. My friend Wendy texted me on a Tuesday, saying she needed to be in London by Sunday for a work meeting. Would my daughter and I like to tag along with her and her daughter?
I have long held the belief that Thanksgiving is for international travel. I look at the few solid days off from work and school as a fantastic reason to add on a few more and another weekend and make it a good 10 days to go someplace warm.
On our first major vacation in well over a year, our family of five ventured to the Big Island of Hawaii in March. We have a tradition in our family — when you turn 10 years old, you get to pick the family vacation.
Snow! Snow! Snow! Ski! Ski! Ski!
I’ve traveled all over the world and I am always eager to come back home to the Pacific Northwest and our abundance of beauty. Choosing just four of my favorite places is tricky, because in each direction we have exhilarating and interesting vacation spots.
As a sometimes-travel writer, I am sadly still shut out from most of the beloved world until it is safer to move about the Earth. My passport is ensconced in a safe place while I dream and plan for farther-afield adventures in 2022 (Maldives? Cost Rica?).
Has the pandemic left you with a sense of wanderlust? Do you daydream about heading to a scenic lake? Perhaps even visiting a medieval castle? Or staying at a quaint chateau? With many travel limitations still in effect, the Schweitzer Basin in Idaho offers an interesting alternative to more…
It’s safe to say that just as 2020 proved to be a year of very little travel, 2021 is starting out the very same. Fewer flights are being taken, cruises are docked and trains are pretty well out of the question.
Americans haven’t done much traveling since last March. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, vacation plans were scrapped, or never even made. Instead, we rediscovered green spaces closer to home, where we did our exploring and adventuring in fresh air.
When Jean Hansard was ready to head out of Yakima to become a full-time camper, she had her phone preloaded with many helpful apps. The 81-year-old retired school administrative assistant sold her home and was scheduled to hit the road just as the pandemic began last winter. She had her T@B …
Do you have cabin fever? Are you marking the passage of time by whether you need to take the garbage can or the recycling can out to the street today? Did you catch yourself talking to the Santa ornament on the Christmas tree again?
