Port of Call

When cruising north from the San Juan Islands, Pender Island rises out of the Salish Sea with the same signature mountains, rocky shores, and evergreen forests as stateside islands. But …

It’s a cool Saturday morning and the M/V Guemes is on one of its 23 daily runs ferrying vehicles and passengers between Anacortes and Guemes Island. The ferry crosses the …

For astronomers studying the cosmos, the term singularity defines the point where a property is thought to be infinite. For example, according to classical theory, the center of a black …

The small port town of Seward, Alaska, is a singularity, like a seafood stew made exclusively with such wonderful and strange ingredients that its flavor is unlike anything else. For …

Towards the southern end of Puget Sound and stretching most of the distance between Tacoma and Seattle lies Vashon Island, an oasis of small town living and private farms amongst …

Just a short ferry ride from Edmonds, the town of Kingston, Washington, holds the unofficial moniker of “Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.” Kingston was once host to commercial freighters and …

You may not realize it, but if you’ve travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, you’ve probably been to Sidney. Positioned adjacent to the Victoria International Airport and the busy ferry …

Tucked between the hills and sea stacks along Oregon’s Highway 101 lies Depoe Bay, a small town that packs everything quintessentially “Oregon Coast” into an area less than two square …

Many of the world’s great cities project an identity with pithy one-liners. New York? The City of Dreams, alluding to that place’s infamous ambition. Chicago? The Windy City, a reference …

Nestled in the Canadian Cascades at the eastern end of the shallow-sided Burrard Inlet is Port Moody, just 45 minutes from Vancouver, deemed the City of the Arts. While surrounded …

The Olympic Peninsula—and by proxy its eastern fjord border of the Hood Canal—may be the most unapologetically wyrd place in the universe. Note the Old English spelling reminiscent of the …

Standing proud at the gateway to the wild waters north is the singular Victoria, British Columbia. The capital of the province, Victoria stands in contrast to the more typical working, …