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The price of gas, pushing $4.50 a gallon, is now officially impacting our summer travel. I imagine it is yours, too. We’re now brainstorming places we can go for relaxing summer weekend excursions that require minimal mileage. As residents of West Seattle, the closest getaway we could come up with is only a short ferry [...]
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What a fantastic vacation a trip to Eastern Oregon makes. This varied landscape, rich with geologic history and natural beauty, features many surprising elements–ponderosa pine-topped mountains, meadows of tall native grasses and wildflowers, winding rivers and streams teaming with trout, stunning canyons and badlands, and real fossils that you can get close to. Add to [...]
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Going to see Our Town, Othello or Fences this summer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival? That’s the eight-month season of eleven plays in three theaters that happens each year down in Ashland, Oregon. A handful of the festival’s plays are always Shakespeare, with classics by playwrights like Arthur Miller and Thornton Wilder making up the [...]
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Island life. A pace or two behind the city, of course, but isn’t that why you go there? South Whidbey Island is one of the quickest, hassle-free getaways for those of us that live in the Seattle metro area. You just pack up your car, head to Mukilteo, and get yourself on a ferry. It [...]
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