Travel

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.

By Susan Lagsdin Last year — from Aug. 21 to Sept. 26 — Wenatchee friends Bonnie Fortner and Debbie Gurnard took a really long walk. Since 812 A.D., hardy Catholics on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint James in … Continue reading →

By Sharon Podlich After 35 years of growing apples and raising a family in Orondo, Chuck and I retired last year and purchased Top Cider, a 44-foot Kelly Peterson sailboat. We spent several winter months sailing, exploring and living “on … Continue reading →

                            By Marlene Farrell Just after Christmas Nick Runions kissed his family goodbye. He was embarking on a trip to climb Aconcagua, the highest peak in the … Continue reading →

                          By Jill LaRue My husband Tom Ettinger and I like to travel. We don’t like to miss opportunities to visit places off the beaten path, especially when … Continue reading →

By Nicole Clennon This past December, two friends and I ventured to Ecuador together… destination, the Amazon. I had flown into Quito a few times before my most recent trip, but this was my first time landing without a heavy … Continue reading →

Dreams of sailing around the world were realigned to sailing to Mexico… and even that took refitting a boat By Jessica Draggoo Many dream of buying a sailboat and learning to sail but often those dreams are squashed by jobs, family … Continue reading →

By Susan Eby For someone who enjoys people as much as I do, it seemed strange to feel such deep, deep contentment as I wandered — alone — through the narrow stone streets of the tiny, ancient Italian hilltop city … Continue reading →