Even a professional cheap sleeper needs a little glamour every now and again. The thing is, I could get used to this! Ever since my family spent a recent night at Portland’s Hotel Modera downtown, I have daydreamed about moving in!

Eagle Aerie, a self-described “occasional lodging,” is a continental breakfast B&B that sits perched atop the western cliffs of central Whidbey Island. My co-worker Deb and her husband Bruce spent a relaxing fall weekend there recently and came home to Seattle gushing about it.

If there’s one thing about the Twilight saga that makes me really happy, it’s that the masses are descending on Forks and other Washington state coastal communities, the setting for the new movie New Moon and the Twilight series of books it is based on. ...

Washington State Tourism website, experiencewa.com, is a pretty decent resource for tourists and local travelers overall. Sure, it still has a problem or two, and they did just launch an Olympic Peninsula Twilight tourism page (…zzzzzz).

Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we take a weekend trip down to Portland to do nothing but shop. (Okay, and drink coffee.) We hit thrift stores, the Pearl, art and crafts fairs (for which PDX is an epicenter), bookstores, and antique malls. ...

The Pacific Northwest is pretty close to paradise for geothermal-lovers. Here are a few fun overnight destinations for natural hotspring-dipping.

Wanting to take advantage of a stunning autumn weekend, I booked the last available room at the Methow Valley Inn, a bed and breakfast located in Twisp, a tiny town in the eastern foothills of the North Cascades.

It is officially my favorite month, and I’m ready to get out and see some blazing fall color and run through a corn maze or two. Check out these picks for a harvest-time getaway.

The Okanagan Valley in BC stretches north from the Washington state border and is dotted with warm sunshine, sparkling lakes, orchards, vineyards, and charming towns. Cheap sleeps include the Haynes Point Lakeside Bed and Breakfast and Mission Creek Country Inn.

I’ve saved some vacation days. I hope you have, too. Because really–this is when the fun begins. The crowds have dwindled, and the weather is still perfectly pleasant. Many great places to ...