State and Washington Shopping. It’s what Chicago’s about during the holidays, right? You’d think so with all of the Crate & Barrel, Eddie Bauer and Pottery Barn bags we were assaulted with. But Tiffany and I were more interested in exploring and snapping some photos. Some observations: It was cold […]

Picturing myself in the Spokane River I traveled for work-related purposes over the past three days. Two nights in a lovely Comfort Inn in Liberty Lake, Washington (on the outskirts of Spokane), just weren’t enough for me to get acclimated to PST. It’s only a three-hour difference, but I was […]

So good it required a photo; Vancouver : August 2003 I had a martini once. At the Blue Angel in Chicago on a cold, rainy afternoon. My friend Mark ordered an entree that actually included your choice of a free drink. The martini was one of the options. The one […]

Trilium Lake, Oregon : August 2003 You have to give my husband a lot of credit. I’m not easy to travel with. Take Trilium Lake, for instance. I insisted that we do the Columbia River Gorge/Mt. Hood Loop during our Pacific Northwest jaunt. Which meant driving down to this area […]

Scenic beach along Chuckanut Drive, Washington : August 2003 On our way from Vancouver to Seattle, we decided there had to be a better way than traveling Highway 5. So we inquired at the Travel Information Center across the border. The woman pointed us toward Route 11, otherwise known as […]