What’s so great about Port Townsend? What isn’t? It’s got beaches (and beaches!), sprawling parks, funky shops, excellent art and music, every kind of cuisine, an old-style movie theater, history, beautiful old brick buildings, a nationally respected Arts Center, pretty Victorian homes in all shades of the rainbow, and every kind of place to stay,…
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The Port Townsend Getaway: 16 Ideas for Fun
Posted on 17 June 2013.
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New Frog Hopper Bus Will Take You and Visitors to Key Bainbridge Destinations
Posted on 03 June 2013.
It makes sense, since Bainbridge Islanders have this thing about frogs, that the new Chamber of Commerce tourism bus system is called the Frog Hopper Bus. The name also makes sense since riders can hop on and off the buses at favorite visitor destinations including Rolling Bay, the Bloedel Reserve, Coppertop Loop, Lynwood, and Pritchard…
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BHS Teacher Brad Lewis Wins National Travel Award
Posted on 30 May 2013.
Bainbridge High School AP statistics teacher Bradley Lewis has won a prestigious travel and teaching grant to study in Africa. From thousands of applicants across the country, Lewis has been selected as one of 15 winners through the inaugural Hilton HHonors Teacher Treks Travel Grant Competition. The grants are meant to enhance classroom environments by giving instructors…
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Seattle Area Holiday Family Fun Ideas
Posted on 26 December 2012.
3 p.m. With the holiday season starting late this year, most of us have a chunk of time on our hands now before the kids head back to school. Looking for some family fun? Why not hop the pond for a change of scenery? Here are ideas to bust of out of the cooped-up blues….
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Bainbridge Goes to the Galapagos!
Posted on 24 September 2012.
5:30 a.m. Since visiting the Galapagos Islands last year, Bainbridge Park District Arts and Cultural Manager Sue Hylen has been scheming up a way to share her experience with other Bainbridge Islanders. Now the Park District, spearheaded by Hylen, is offering a Bainbridge Island Galapagos Adventure Tour next spring, April 26 through May 8. Led…
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TravelHawks: Lake Chelan—6 Dos, 1 Don’t, and a Maybe
Posted on 19 August 2012.
by Kevin Hawkins and Kyanne Hawkins August 19, 2012 3:20 p.m. We’ve been traveling as a family to Lake Chelan since our friend and Island Realtor Susan Burris shared her family’s favorite getaway suggestion with us a decade ago. We loved it so much we bought a timeshare after our third visit. We make the…
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Living by Design: Flying Away to Damanhur, Italy
Posted on 29 July 2012.
by Chuck Estin July 28, 2012 1:52 p.m. Flying over the Atlantic, I’m in a place between worlds. I left my old world when I boarded the ferry this morning, after three days of minimal sleep putting my affairs in order from my Island realm. Now I’m struggling to adjust my large frame to the…
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TravelHawks: Two New Seattle Must Dos—The Great Wheel and Chihuly
Posted on 23 July 2012.
by Kevin Hawkins and Kyanne Hawkins July 23, 2012, 10:25 a.m. The Seattle Great Wheel, the newest addition to the waterfront and skyline, and the new Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center are attractions that should not be missed by visitors or locals. The Seattle Great Wheel Owner Hal Griffith’s 30-year dream to…
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Chinese Teenagers Come to Bainbridge, Take My Picture
Posted on 18 July 2012.
10:32 a.m. As a writer, I admit I’m usually more comfortable asking the questions and taking the pictures than the other way around. Or maybe I’m just used to being the most curious person in the room, willing to listen. But yesterday when I started talking with the Chinese exchange students visiting the Bainbridge Island…
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TravelHawks: Day Tripping on Whidbey Island
Posted on 15 July 2012.
Whidbey: Rated 3.75 out of 4 Why would an Islander want to visit another nearby island? After all, much of Whidbey Island has a lot of the same virtues as Bainbridge: lush evergreen forests, long winding roads, lovely harbor vistas, nice restaurants, boutique shops, car and passenger ferries providing easy access to the mainland, and…
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The Vancouver BC Getaway (w/ Photo Gallery)
Posted on 10 June 2012.
With summer around the corner and Vancouver, BC, a quick three-hour trip across the border from Seattle, now’s the time to make your plans to head up north to this world-class city. Since you’re a northwesterner and you like trees and water, don’t even think about staying anywhere else but the West End, near Stanley…
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The Virtues of Visiting Cannon Beach in the Off Season (w/ Photo Gallery)
Posted on 23 February 2012.
Why drive down to Cannon Beach during the “off season,” with possibly blustery rain and cold temps? Some might respond, It’s Cannon Beach, ‘nough said. But here are more reasons. It’s cheaper than Hawaii. It’s arguably the most beautiful time of year there. The rates are way reduced. You’ve got the place to yourself, more…
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Living By Design: Italy’s Damanhur—A Model of Community Sustainability
Posted on 31 January 2012.
by Chuck Estin January 31, 2012 The Federation of Damanhur is a thriving community of 1,000 in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Damanhurians live in large shared houses, or nucleos, scattered throughout the Valchiusella Valley. After 37 years, Damanhur has farms producing much of its food, numerous businesses, schools, and healing centers. Damanhur is…
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For Orphans in Nepal, Happiness Is Shared with Others
Posted on 19 December 2011.
by Isabelle Hoonan December 19, 2011 Walking always seems to spark furtive thought: As rocks crunch and roll beneath my hiking boots, as I pass the traveler’s Bullet Bar and head onto the main tourist drag of Lakeside, I am reminded of a quote from Christopher McCandless: “Happiness is only real when shared.” Perhaps the…
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The Best of Bainbridge Holiday Lights Car Tour
Posted on 11 December 2011.
by Julie Hall and Sarah Lane December 11, 2011 Sure, there are some long dark stretches of winter roads around here. But it turns out that there are plentiful and quite spectacular—one might even venture to say at times manically extravagant—holiday lights displays on Bainbridge if you know where to look. (View our Holiday Lights…
Finding a Home in Nepal Through Friends and Purpose
Posted on 02 December 2011.
by Isabelle Hoonan December 2, 2011 Isabelle Hoonan is a 2010 Bainbridge High School graduate who has just embarked on a year-long adventure in Nepal and India. After her adventures, she plans to return to Western Washington University as an art major. This is her second article in a written exploration of her travels. Read…
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Thanksgiving in the Dungeness Lighthouse
Posted on 22 November 2011.
When Bainbridge Islander Diana Montgomery heard about lighthouse keeping at the New Dungeness Light Station (NDLS) she knew it was an experience her family would want to have. Checking the Lighthouse’s calendar, she found an opening over Thanksgiving week that sounded perfect, and so, Montgomery explained, “a few emails and calls later I booked the…
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Our New Home: Kathmandu, a City of Contradictions
Posted on 11 November 2011.
by Isabelle Hoonan Isabelle Hoonan is a 2010 Bainbridge High School graduate who has just embarked on a year-long adventure in Nepal and India. After her adventures, she plans to return to Western Washington University as an art major. This is her first article in a written exploration of her travels. Five days into a…
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Kaleena Introduces Mac ‘n’ Cheese to France
Posted on 30 October 2011.
Our Inside Bainbridge foreign correspondent, BHS grad Kaleena Fraga, is spending her college junior year semester abroad in France. Her program at Oberlin College requires that she speak and write only French during the semester. Here is our English translation of her latest adventures. To read Kaleena’s French version, click here: French Version. I couldn’t…
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Kaleena Introduit le Mac ‘n’ Cheese en France
Posted on 30 October 2011.
Our Inside Bainbridge foreign correspondent BHS grad Kaleena Fraga is in France for her college junior year semester abroad. Her program at Oberlin College requires that she speak and write only French during the semester. Here is her latest update from France, in French. To read our English translation, click here: English Version. Je ne…
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