Category Archives: Published Elsewhere
The Bellingham Brewery Six Pack
Just an hour from Vancouver, Washington State’s northern capital beckons with some of the most interesting craft beer north of Portland.
Read more: http://vanmag.com/drinks/beer/the-bellingham-brewery-six-pack/
(Originally appeared in Vancouver Magazine, September 2, 2015)
Posted in Beer, PNW Places we ♥, Published Elsewhere
The Wild Luxury of Tofino
Cloistered in a tangle of towering evergreens and the sound of crashing surf,Tofino, B.C., doesn’t share its wonders easily. The trip from Vancouver is two hours by ferry, then another four by car, traversing highways, regional roads and, finally, a narrow necklace of pavement strung along mountains. But the payoff eclipses the journey, as the tourist influx—Tofino’s year-round population of 1,800 swells to 22,000 in the summer—will attest.
Read more: http://www.canadianliving.com/life/travel/the_wild_luxury_of_tofino_bc.php
Originally appeared in Canadian Living, July 2015.
Posted in PNW Places we ♥, Published Elsewhere
Natural Beauties
The great outdoors have always been enhanced by great base camps. Lucky for us, B.C. and Washington State are sprinkled with one-of-a-kind resorts that blend into their surrounding while still insisting on luxury for guests. Here are the best of the rustic luxury lot, all within a day’s drive of Vancouver.
Read more: http://www.brianjesselbmwjournal.com/bjmag_may2015.pdf (Pages 48-49)
(Originally appeared in Brian Jessel BMW Magazine, May 2015)
Posted in PNW Places we ♥, Published Elsewhere
How the Ucluelet Nation is reinventing Tofino tourism on its own terms
It may be the Friday of the August long weekend—Vancouver Island’s busiest travel season—but you’d never know it standing out on the cedar deck of a months-old Wya Point Resort luxury lodge, trying to make out Ucluth Beach through the surreal blue-sky fog 200 metres below. Incredibly, even as traffic on the Port Alberni-Tofino highway is reaching its usual congestion, there’s still no one on this particular band of sand located between the Highway 4 junction and the town of Ucluelet. And to accentuate the point, a bear cub suddenly scampers by, and then another in hot pursuit. This in addition to the wheeling bald eagles who’ve been here since check-in.
(Originally published in BC Business, November 2014 issue)
Posted in PNW Places we ♥, Published Elsewhere
Seattle’s South Lake Union
South Lake Union, a buzzy, fast-rising horseshoe wrapping the bottom of the eponymous sparkling lake just north of downtown Seattle, is a slice of Silicon Valley in the Pacific Northwest. Which means an area once known for warehouses, rusty fishing vessels and the transient populace that prefers such environs is now home to Amazon.com’s new headquarters, various Microsoft campuses and the University of Washington Medicine complex. But where SLU differs from Menlo Park is the fact that it’s wrapped by urban Seattle, which means the play definitely outnumbers the work. The big freshwater lake in the heart of it all tends to put things in perspective.
Read more: http://www.bcliving.ca/travel/discover-seattle-south-lake-union
Originally published in BC Living, October 2014.
Posted in PNW Places we ♥, Published Elsewhere
Pacific Northwest Family 