Travel

By Bill and Dana Kappler  Friends and family said, “Why Mexico? Aren’t you afraid of crime and the food?”  Well, we have always enjoyed the food and the Mexican people are the friendliest, warmest people anywhere. There is crime here … Continue reading →

By Lee Martin Not too long ago — before the COVID-19 travel restrictions  — some of our friends, who had travelled the world extensively, were planning a trip to France for three weeks.  They were planning the whole thing and … Continue reading →

Great timing for an island wedding,     Korean mermaids and a taste of the sea By Mari Foreman Groff Last September, my husband Alan and I traveled to our Best Man’s wedding in South Korea. It was a big … Continue reading →

48 hours to figure out if Palm Springs checks off the ‘musts’ on the list By Kalin Raible We are still on the hunt for a place to retire to in 15 – 20 years.  Last year, we looked at … Continue reading →

She was there for the view; did the young Asian couples had something else in mind? By Lisa Therrell I must admit I had been feeling a bit sorry for myself.  I flew in to slushy Anchorage, Alaska the same … Continue reading →

Where people are friendly, food tasty and views right out of The Game of Thrones By Shelly Kill We all have bucket lists of things we want to do, places we want to go, and things we want to experience.  … Continue reading →

Monetary theory in four scenes By Dale Foreman Scene One. We are in Buenos Aires, riding in a taxi on the way to a famous coffee house, La Biela.  The year is 2008. The financial crisis is bad, worse in … Continue reading →

By Susan Campbell Shell A bicycle trip brochure was where I first read about Patagonia. It sounded like an interesting and challenging trip. I planned to do it “someday.”   Many years passed, and some friends and I were talking about … Continue reading →

by Linda Reid  Travel by train always intrigued me.  My introduction to it came by way of a Little Golden Book entitled All Aboard!, about a young girl and her mother traveling to visit her grandma in the “big city” … Continue reading →

by Vicki Olson Carr The Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord districts of southern Norway had put on their fresh spring clothes after a long, dark winter when I returned to my grandparents’ homeland a few weeks ago.  The apple and cherry trees … Continue reading →

By Dave Graybill Every year my wife Eileen and I host a fishing trip to somewhere warm.  We have taken small groups of people to Belize twice and to three different destinations on the Sea of Cortez on the Baja … Continue reading →

By Dale Foreman For many of the last 35 years my wife, Gail, and I have been travelling to Mexico.  We have gone on business trips, selling apples and pears. I have visited the huge produce markets in Mexico City … Continue reading →

By Keith Kellogg In early 2018, I began planning a bow hunting trip to Greenland, only to discover that flights there are very limited, either connecting through Iceland or Copenhagen, Denmark. At the same time, I was trying to organize … Continue reading →

By Kalin Raible In December, my wife and I decided to check out Florida. The reasons for the trip were many but key components were… •   Find someplace warmer than Wenatchee, where the sun is shining in winter, for our retirement years. … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: In the March 2018 issue, Sharon Podlich wrote about how she and her husband, Chuck, retired from growing apples in Orondo, and bought a 44-foot sailboat they named Top Cider, and went on a sailing adventure off of … Continue reading →

By Alan Moen New Mexico is hardly new, nor is it Mexico. Instead, this fifth-largest state of the Union in physical size has a remote and timeless beauty, a character all its own. When my wife, Susan, and I decided … Continue reading →

By Molly Steere After several surgeries last year, including a total knee replacement, I was desperate for something to look forward to.  However, my husband, Toby, and I were trying to save money (I hear college is expensive these days) … Continue reading →

By Gary Larson In the summer of 2017 during my two months of recovery and convalescence for a torn and repaired left knee Patella injury, I focused positive thoughts for future hiking endeavors for 2018.  The year 2018 was a … Continue reading →

By Lee Martin I love most things British: their history, their pubs, their humor, and their authors. While I had been to the United Kingdom several times in my lifetime, I had never really considered hiking through the countryside. Then … Continue reading →

By Phil Rasmussen It is probably fair to say that I am an Anglophile. I’ve read British history for years, and my wife Lovelyn and I have watched Downton Abbey and every British murder mystery on PBS… thoroughly amazed that … Continue reading →

By Phil Rasmussen In September my wife Lovelyn and I took a do-it-ourselves road trip through England. We have driven in Europe before, but as we planned the trip, the thought of driving on the “wrong” side of the road … Continue reading →

By Alan Moen Growing up here in the Pacific Northwest, I’m used to seeing volcanoes. In fact, I’ve climbed many of them — Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens, both before and … Continue reading →

By Susan Weber Three years ago, my husband Dave and I looked across the desert into Egypt from Israel and hugged the border for miles as we drove through the Negev desert but we didn’t get to go there. Then … Continue reading →

By Yvette Davis Imagine you’re an eye surgeon taking out a cataract. Your fingers are holding a sharp scalpel that’s about to slice through the patient’s cornea. Then without warning all the lights above you flicker and go out. What … Continue reading →

                                                By Devin Scroggins While spending New Year’s with my dad, Boyd, we were talking when he … Continue reading →

Local                           Landscape and wildlife photographer Marshall R. Mahler recently traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii to capture fine art images of the current eruption of the … Continue reading →

By Donna Cassidy Julie Tarbert, of Wenatchee, joined her Korean War veteran father, John Bayne, on an Honor Flight to Washington D.C. in May, and said, “It was a very moving experience.” The Honor Flight flies veterans of war to … Continue reading →

Here Dan McConnell’s original journal page entries from his Mad Dash to Italy trip.