Our best shot of unincorporated Snohomish County It was getting urgent. We knew it was high time to abandon the too-familiar streets of Seattle in pursuit of sanctuary from chaotic, connected city life, or else risk losing our soul and sanity. The original plan for this weekend was to leave the state somehow--head down to Portland, or up to B.C. We informed our checking account of the plan and it began to sqwak in......

We had such a nice time this weekend at our little gay getaway on Bainbridge, we thought we'd give our hosts a shout out. First, we'll get the bad news out of the way. Something we weren't so thrilled about was our weird dinner at Cafe Nola downtown. The food wasn't bad, it was just a weird array of ingredients (carrots garnished the scallops-and-roasted-red-pepper-sauce dish, for example). We're not your typical foodie, but we......