I’ve written before about a very special place in the Pacific Northwest where I spent my junior high and high school years: it’s called Wenatchee (Two Rivers Run Through It). It’s a place of apple and pear orchards, chinook and sockeye salmon and rolling Columbia River Valley vineyards. It’s also a place of sunshine, to the disbelief of many: it has often been boasted that Wenatchee gets “300 days of sunshine” annually. The north central Washington city is on the arid (eastern) side of the ... View Post
Pacific Northwest Fare
On a recent trip back to Washington state {Two Rivers Run Through It}, I took advantage of the opportunity to stuff my face with as much Pacific Northwest goodness as humanly possible. One of the definite highlights was sinking my teeth into fruit fresh from the orchards of my hometown {Apple Of My Eye}, but my absolute favorite moments were sharing Chinook (King) and Sockeye salmon with friends. If it was available, I chose salmon - in fact, I managed to find some every single day of my ... View Post
Two Rivers Run Through It
When I was just shy of twelve, we moved nearly 3,000 miles from Kingston, Jamaica diagonally across the United States to the Pacific Northwest. To say that it took some adjusting is an understatement, but that's a story for another day. We settled into Wenatchee, Washington - a town of around 20,000 people which touted itself as "the apple capital of the world and the buckle of the power belt of the Pacific Northwest" - a tagline that ran for years (and still may) on the front page masthead ... View Post
