The Good Life - October 2020

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Living south of the border: “We have always loved Mexico” • Barging down a French canal • Mothers, daughters, mountains and dirt • Hoping on hops for shade and a cold beer • A lawn is a terrible thing to waste on grass • Leavenworth museum gets a makeover • Building a tiny house for the fun of it • Is organic food worth the cost? • Even monkeys understand fairness

Got beautiful nature photos?

From the ridge tops to the valley bottom, Chelan County provides residents and visitors alike with a spectacular place to live, work and play.

1 min

Look quickly, a Chukar won't linger for long

Your word of the month is “gallinaceous.”

2 mins

‘We have always loved Mexico'

Friends and family said, “Why Mexico? Aren’t you afraid of crime and the food?”

4 mins

Barging down a French canal

Not too long ago — before the COVID-19 travel restrictions — some of our friends, who had travelled the world extensively, were planning a trip to France for three weeks.

4 mins

Mothers, daughters, mountains and dirt

We stepped onto a trail, one after the other, until all seven of us stood on that flat dusty ribbon.

4 mins

Hoping for hops: Shade and a cold beer

I have always prided myself in being a life-long learner. I push myself to keep trying new things.

3 mins

A yard is a terrible thing to waste

But going from grass to blooms involves heavy digging

3 mins

Volunteer power

Community members reimagine and reenergize Greater Leavenworth Museum

5 mins

A tiny challenge Just for the LOVE of it At Home

The last thing I needed was another house — even if it was just a tiny house.

4 mins

The West called and Guy Waring answered

From Boston he came, again and again and again, until the end

5 mins

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The Good Life Magazine Description:

The Good Life magazine is a monthly lifestyle print publication primarily circulating in Wenatchee and the Chelan and Douglas counties area of Washington founded upon the idea the world is a big, beautiful place — we like to find people who are stepping off the usual path in one way or another to find adventure in their lives.

One of our guidelines is that we only report on local people — folks from Chelan and Douglas counties. Our idea is this: other media can go all around the world and come back with stories on war, famine, earthquakes, crime and the like.

We go right down the street and find our neighbors who are doing something extraordinary that maybe, might inspire you to take your own adventure. The variety of our stories never ceases to surprise us: People have shared their adventures of going to some of the most inhospitable places on earth — such as north of the Arctic Circle — to the most hospitable — such as floating down the canals in the French countryside.

Most of our stories, though, take part locally, in the most beautiful area of Washington State, as readers and contributors find adventure close to home. We love the “chapter two” stories where people show us how they have rebounded one of life’s bruises to find new joy in living.