Vancouver Skiers’ love letter to Methow Valley, Washington State X-C Ski area near Winthrop, Washington. Five ways we love you. Dear Methow Valley, Your name (so elegant, like The Met, and ‘ow’ like an après-ski-fall) is the site of North America’s largest Nordic skiing area. Your 200 kms (120 miles) of daily-groomed trails celebrates its […]
Bicycling from Swartz Bay to Victoria along the Lochside Trail isn’t without incident. Just five minutes past the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society (VRCMS) flying grounds at Michell Airpark, I meet a pig in a pigpen. Welcome to Lochside Trail Pig Gig, Tourism Vancouver Island, Destination British Columbia . I usually stop to see a model plane or […]
Britannia Mine Museum is a new industry member of the BC Association of Travel Writers. I make a visit. Just 55 kilometers north of Vancouver, and ten minutes south of Squamish, the Britannia Mine Museum is easy access along the scenic Sea to Sky Highway 99. At the site of what was once the largest copper-producing mine […]
A week after the Gastown Food Tour with Taste Vancouver, I’m up for another flavorful fling. This time it’s Taste Vancouver’s Little Italy food tour. I exchange BC Travel Writers for my husband and fourteen visitors and locals…a Californian couple off a cruise ship, a couple from Maple Ridge, a couple from the North Shore, […]
British Columbia Travel Writers are thrilled to welcome Taste Vancouver Food Tours as a new industry member. Our host, Brent, takes us on Taste Vancouver’s Gastown Food Tour. In the warmth of red-brick-and-stone buildings (as was the by-law after Vancouver’s Great Fire of 1886) we taste our way down Water Street. From Waterfront Station’s first […]
Travel Writing Panels and Channels The annual British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) Symposium 2016, ‘British Columbia: Too Beautiful for Words’ started with a tour of the New Westminster Museum & Archives. Simon Fraser spoke to me (well, it was his photo and a quote). His journals are the first account of the […]
Vancouver Skiers: Rocky Mountain Road Trip Feb. 16-21, 2016 Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown The Vancouver Skiers‘ trip to Rocky Mountain nordic or cross-country skiing locales (skate and classic style) provided so much detail, flexibility and choice in ski and apres-ski planning. What a Rocky-Mountain Rollick, under the leadership […]
We bought four timeshare weeks at Lawai Beach Resort several years ago and it’s our go-to place come December. Despite being both the holiday and the rainy season, it still has five ‘Why Kauai?’ calling cards… Why Kauai? Weather Kauai is the northwestern-most island of the Hawaiian chain encircling one of the wettest spots on […]
My husband wants to go to the Mission Raceway. Vintage car racing…to see old cars go fast. ‘Wanna pack a picnic? It’ll be fun.’ I need some convincing, but it’s a leisurely Saturday. I ask how he got the bug. ‘Well, they’re not really practical, but they’re fun to drive, close to the ground. You’re […]
10-steps from beer to blog A beer tour with Enthusiastic Emily at ‘big Rock Urban Brewery’ and a blogging Meetup with Marvelous Mari Kane who is the BCATW (BC Association of Travel Writers) webmistress and WordPress expert brought the two processes together. A barley grain of an idea. The yeast, the hops, the distilled water. […]