The Sandpoint Eater: It’s Greek to me
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
If I haven’t been there, it’s likely on my list. This year, I will conquer one of my most ambitious travel schedules. First, I am …
Tagged: 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 …
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, …
The Sandpoint Eater: Father fodder
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Early Sunday morning, armed with a well-wrapped, hot-from-the-oven huckleberry and rhubarb cobbler, I hightailed it to daughter Casey’s home in Spokane. It turns out her …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
A warmer melting pot
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
As far back as the 18th century, the melting pot metaphor was used to describe the fusion of various cultures, nationalities, religions and ethnic groups …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Live Music, the Summer Sampler, the Art Party, Monarch Grind, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire, and more! See the full list of events in the 