Disclosure: This post was created in collaboration with InterContinental Hotels Group. As always, all experiences and opinions are my own. Seattle is one of my favorite cities to visit, and I’ve been blessed with many trips there during all...
Seattle in Photos
Now that Jessica is on the road to recovery, Mr. Misadventures and I are feeling a certain sense of freedom! We took our ability to go away for the night together and headed to Seattle for a few days...
AFAR Experience Seattle – Day 3 Coffee and a View
Sunday morning bright and early the AFAR Experiences group headed to Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company in Capitol Hill to talk a little coffee and a little pot. Not the pot you pour your coffee into, but marijuana. To...
AFAR Experience Seattle – Misadventures in Foraging
After an exploratory morning at MOHAI and a fun stop at Love City Love, us AFAR Experiencers broke out into individual excursions for an afternoon of more intimate encounters with Seattle. There were a lot of interesting options to...
AFAR Experience Seattle – Exploring MOHAI
After a fantastic kick-off event welcoming us to Seattle the previous evening, the AFAR Experiences group began a super-charged day 2 at the amazing MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) before it opened. Having an entire museum to yourself...
AFAR Experience Seattle – The Opening
I may be an AFAR Ambassador and Local Expert, but I was smitten with AFAR way before I became either. I love the magazine and the principles in which it was created. I am an advocate for the charity...
Lummi Island
If you have been following along the last couple of days you will know that I traveled to the Willows Inn which is located on Lummi Island in the San Juan Islands for an epicurean adventure. You can read...
Willows Inn Lummi Island
So where did all the culinary goodness I wrote about take place? At a very special place. The Willows Inn. A property that has been servicing Pacific Northwesterners for a century. These days the focus is on the food...
A meal at The Willows Inn Lummi Island (Part 2)
Ballet. Discipline. Harmony. Home. These were the words that kept popping into my head as I spent an evening in the presence of epicurean mastery at The Willows Inn on Lummi Island in the San Juan Islands. I wrote...
A meal at The Willows Inn Lummi Island (Part 1) The Snacks
After traveling by plane, car and ferry to get to the Willows Inn on Lummi Island, I was anxious to begin the meal I had been thinking about eating for four months (see the background post here). I will...
A meal at The Willows Inn Lummi Island – the background
Every year Mr. Misadventures and I head to one of the many islands in the San Juan chain. So far we have been to Lopez Island, Orcas Island, the main San Juan Island in our discoveries. We come to...
Trip Report – Orcas Island
Unlike my trip to Lopez Island last year, my venture to Orcas Island was a quick trip on a long weekend. I would say four days is probably one day too short to make it worth the time to...