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DANNY PALMERLEE

Danny is a freelance writer and photographer based in Portland. He has written numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks, and his work has appeared in publications around the globe. While researching this book he fell in love with Cape Perpetua, had a fender-bender in Biggs and was blessed twice by a man at Terwilliger Hot Springs. His favorite trip was From Heaven to Hells Canyon.

CATHERINE BODRY

Catherine grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and attended college in Bellingham. There, she often watched the Alaska ferry depart, and it was partly the daydreams the ferry inspired that eventually led her to Alaska. She received an MA in English from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and now lives in Seward. Her favorite trip was Up the Inside Passage.

MARIELLA KRAUSE

Mariella has been smitten with the Pacific Northwest ever since her first trip to Seattle, where she dined on fresh wild salmon on a houseboat in Lake Union with otters paddling by. She lives in San Francisco, where shes happy to be just a few hours drive from the Oregon border. Her favorite trip was Island & Orcas.

JOHN LEE

John moved from the UK to study at the University of Victoria in 1993, ultimately sticking around rather than returning to the land of Marmite and Yorkie bars. Now a Vancouver-based travel writer, his work appears in magazines and newspapers around the world and at www.johnleewriter.com. His favorite trip was the Queen Charlotte Islands.

BRADLEY MAYHEW

Bradley has written over 25 titles for Lonely Planet, including Tibet, Nepal, Central Asia and Bhutan. An appreciation for mountains and wild spaces followed him on this trip around the Cascades, Olympic Peninsula and Mt Rainier. No stranger to American wilderness, Bradley currently lives in Montana. His favorite trip was Mt Rainier: Sunrise to Sunset.

CONTRIBUTING EXPERTS

Cole Danehower is editor in chief of Northwest Palate Magazine, a James Beard Award recipient and author of an upcoming book about wine regions of the Pacific Northwest. He helped craft the weekend wine trip, Willamette Valley Wine Tour.

Marjorie Gersh-Young is the author of Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Pacific Northwest. She helped us get our feet wet in our trip Soak It Up! Hot Springs & Mineral Pools.

Bill Hanshumaker is the Marine Education Specialist at Newports Hatfield Marine Science Center (www.hmsc.oregonstate.edu). Hes been exploring Oregons coast since 1977 and brought his knowledge to bear on the trip Life Aquatic: The Nature of the Coast.

Steve Jones is a cheesemonger and explorer. He owns Steves Cheese (www.stevescheese.biz www.stevescheese.biz), a specialty cheese counter inside Northwest Portlands Square Deal Wine Shop. For the Cheesemongers Cheese Trip he recommended his cheese producers, plus nearby hikes and breweries.

Bob Neroni co-owns Cannon Beachs EVOO Cannon Beach Cooking School (www.evoo.biz) with his wife, Lenore Emery. He lives in Cannon Beach, Oregon and recommended his favorite seafood haunts for Secret Seafood Spots.

Ben Schifrin is the co-author of Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon and Washington (Wilderness Press), as well as trail guides to California and the Emigrant Wilderness. Ben brought hundreds of miles of trail experience to our trip Pacific Crest Trail: Alpine Lakes.

Nigel Springthorpe hails from Middlesborough in northern England. He became co-owner (with his wife) of Vancouvers Alibi Room bar in 2006. He brought his expert taste buds and insider bar knowledge to bear on Pub Crawl Vancouver.

Regan Vacknitz is a psychic, ghost-hunter, and cofounder of the Auburn Paranormal Activities Research Team. She shared some of her favorite haunts in the trip Washington Ghosts and Legends.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ICONIC TRIPS

Here you have them. Eleven trips around the northwestern seaboard that take you to the places and put you on paths that are somehow definitively Pacific Northwest. Microbreweries? Got em covered only this time by train, from Eugene, OR, to Vancouver, BC. Hot Springs? You bet, thanks to an interview with a Pacific Northwest hot-springs specialist who shared her top soaks with us. Amtraks Coast Starlight train trip? Of course. Native American traditions? Yep, on a trip that will have you marveling at totem poles, paddling a traditional dugout canoe and poking through the regions finest museums.

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Whenever youre in radio-wave distance of Seattle, tune into KEXP 90.3 FM, which cranks out some of the best indie, old-school country and modern world music in the Pacific Northwest. The rest of the time, just play the following songs over and over again.

• Posse on Broadway, Sir Mix-a-Lot
• Home, Joshua Morrison
• Gone for Good, The Shins
• Rose Parade, Elliott Smith
• Keep Your Eyes Ahead, The Helio
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• Portland, Oregon, Loretta Lynn
• Northwestern Girls, Say Hi
• Mass Romantic, The New Pornographers
• Heart Cooks Brain, Modest Mouse
• Druganaut, Black Mountain

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The trips in this chapter are the result of a bunch of us knocking heads, poring over maps and dreaming up journeys that really burrow into the culture, the art, the history and the exceptionally beautiful landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The result is a handful of trips which despite the fact that we already know and love the place truly blew us away, trips that really had us screaming, This place is amazing! We hope they have the same effect on you.