Emily Articulated: National parks
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff Last week, I closed the van doors on all the gear and supplies I’d meticulously measured, packed, stuffed and balanced inside. We were leaving for a trip I’d been...
Category: Travel
The Sandpoint Eater: Get out of town!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff Two weeks ago, I was exploring the wilds of the Canadian Rockies as a guest of Rocky Mountaineer — the luxury touring train that operates several routes in Western...
Discovering England — without a cell phone
By Jim Payne Reader Contributor “I’m sorry, sir, we’re fully booked,” said the smiling, white-haired woman busily tending luxuriant purple flowers in front of Wheatleys Farm B&B in Ashton Keynes, England. This was my...
The Sandpoint Eater: Rice is nice
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Here I go again. I’m leaving this week to escort a small group of adventure-seeking ladies to Spain. When I travel, this column tends to have a mind of...
The Sandpoint Eater: Makes scents
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist When I returned home from my most recent travels and opened the 60-pound suitcase that I’d carried far too often the previous two weeks, it carried me right back...
The Sandpoint Eater: Benito & Nonna
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff Hopefully, all of my edible Italian treasures — carefully wrapped and crammed into every nook and cranny of luggage space — will find their way past U.S. Customs, and...
The Sandpoint Eater: Pie in the sky
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnis Next week, I’m off on a long-planned adventure, though my timing is bittersweet. I’ll be missing my favorite family holiday: Easter. It’s so early this year that it snuck...
Internal combustion therapy
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every spring for the past 20 years or so, around the time when the weather turns warm in earnest, I mark a personal seasonal resurrection: the starting up of...
The Sandpoint Eater: All choked up
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist When my anti-train noise neighbors lobbied and won approval for a no-horn zone in Ponder Point, I sorely missed those long, warning whistles from the big, blue-liveried engines of...
A trip to the surreal
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor A Trip to Bountiful is my all-time favorite movie, but a trip to Syme’s Hot Springs is my favorite trip to the surreal. Having visited the hot springs innumerable...
