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Vancouver Skiers’ Love Letter

February 27, 2017January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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Bodacious Reading Series: ‘Bob’s Not Responding’

October 31, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Home

‘Bodacious Reading Series: Bob’s Not Responding

I read at Bodacious last month.  Ten minutes, six poems.  My final one is you-tubed below on ‘Bob’s Not Responding’ (lyrics included).  My other five may incarnate elsewhere.

‘Bodacious’ is a new reading …

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Lochside Trail Pig Gig

August 2, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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Britannia Mine Museum

July 12, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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Taste Vancouver’s Little Italy Food Tour

May 15, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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B.C. Travel Writers and Taste Vancouver Hit Gastown

May 5, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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British Columbia: Too Beautiful for Words

April 17, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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Vancouver Skiers: Rocky Mountain Road Trip

February 27, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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 …

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Why Kauai? Five reasons to go

January 7, 2016January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

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…

  1. Why Kauai?  Weather

    Kauai
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Surrey International Writers’ Conference 2015

October 28, 2015January 20, 2025 joanboxall Home

I registered in the summer for a one-day marathon at October’s Surrey International Writers’ Conference SIWC 2015 for nearly $300:  three sessions, three one-on-ones and lunch at a value approximating $40 per …there, I’ve done the math.   Worth it?  Let

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