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OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 2010 Vol 14 , No. 6   Lynn Rosen, Content Editor

Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 
 
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VANCOUVER ISLAND'S PACIFIC MARINE CIRCLE ROUTE & THE SAANICH PENINSULA, by Lynn Rosen

We were so psyched. Got up at two in the morning, packed our bags and the cooler full of goodies, climbed into the car and headed out on the four-hour drive to catch the M.V. Coho Black Ball Ferry in Port Angeles to Victoria’s Inner Harbour. A three-day adventure was about to unfold....more

 
 
Burning Man 2010
 

BURNING MAN 2010, photo essay by Larry Turner

In 2007, I experienced Burning Man for the first time. I stayed on the Edge. I still do. Burning Man is a fascinating experience of art, people, and landscape.....more

 

 
 
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GRIZZLY TIMES IN CALIFORNIA'S TRINITY ALPS, by Lee Juillerat

For decades I had heard tales about the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, the half-million-acre plus wilderness in far northern California. Friends came back with glowing reports of its rugged isolation, sparkling mountain lakes and otherworldly landscape....more

 
 
Chief Joseph Scenic Byway
 

CHIEF JOSEPH SCENIC BYWAY by Carolyn Dale

The road showed up on only one of our five maps—as an actual paved road. And, no signs announced it as we drove out the Silver Gate entrance at the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park and on to Cooke City, Montana.....more

 
 
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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY ON A SILVER TRAIN, by Ted and Sylvia Blishak

As passengers climb aboard the classic stainless-steel dome cars at Amtrak's Jack London Square Station in Oakland, everything is elegantly organized. We didn't have the slightest hint about the drama that had just ended....more

 
 
Rio Bec, Mexico
 

ANCIENT CITIES OF THE RIO BEC, MEXICO, by Vicki Andersen

I had tried numerous times to get to this point atop Calakmul’s massive pyramid known as Structure II, straining to locate a hump 34 miles to the south, just across the Guatemala border. In less than three months we’d be heading north from Flores via helicopter to that massive jungle-shrouded “mountain”,...more

 
     
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Who we are: For brief bios on the writers who form this Pacific Northwest collective, please click here.

 
     
 

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