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In Spokane, WA: Celebrating a World’s Fair + a Hotel Amenity Fee to enjoy

05/13/24

The Stuck at the Airport team is a longtime fan of Spokane, WA. The city is home to, among other treasures, a giant red Radio Flyer wagon. Its airport, Spokane International (GEG), offers a free car wash to anyone who uses the parking garage. In 1974, this eastern Washington city became the smallest city to →

In Spokane: the world’s oldest flying Boeing airplane

07/23/10

I’ve been touring Spokane, WA and the surrounding countryside this week in search of unusual people, places and events to include in the 3rd edition of Washington Curiosities, one of the books I write for Globe Pequot Press. The week will end with a visit to Felts Field to meet Addison Pemberton, who found and →

First-time trike flight

07/20/10

For a while up there on Prosser Butte, just outside of Spokane, WA, I was hoping the sun would set before it was my turn to get strapped into the back seat of the two-seated, three-wheeled, motorized, kite-like contraption that Denny Reed insists is a perfectly legal light sport aircraft, or trike. But there was →

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First-time trike flight