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We don’t buy many souvenirs that can’t be consumed within a few weeks or months of our return. Honey and spices are among our favorites beca...

Sails unfurled, the boom of cannons re-echoed in the distance from Lake Washington.  We could hear and see from our Kirkland home, the bat...

Even those of us lucky enough to live in Kirkland , just across Lake Washington from Seattle , sometimes take this Pacific Northwest gem fo...

Have you ever been startled to find an obvious, but overlooked, travel treasure right in your own back yard? I was. Just this week.  And...

Sometimes it’s the destination; other times the journey. Sometimes it is both.  A Saturday afternoon jaunt to downtown Kirkland , less th...

J. Smith photo - (c) 2011 Kirkland, the city just east of Seattle on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, in recent years has been calle...

There's a great, but too often overlooked, alternative to Seattle and  it's Kirkland, our hometown.  So before Hula Babe begins her ...