Leavenworth

On September 11th, 2004, Richard failed to return to his home in King County and the authorities were eventually informed of his disappearance on Saturday the 15th by his wife, who wasn't initially concerned when he didn't return home on the 11th.

Searchers quickly set up a 70 square mile search area focusing on Lake Stewart, Kolchak Lake and the Enchantment Lakes to the southwest of Leavenworth.

Unfortunately, up to eight inches of snow fell in the area at the same time, making the efforts of the search and rescue teams more difficult.

Three planes from the State Department of Transportation were used, and Chelan County Mountain Rescue crews were assisted by volunteers from King, Yakima, and Kittitas counties.

But then in hindsight, it was actually really clear to me about something that had been going on in my personal life that I think really impacted how the story shaped out.

So the first thing is this novella was actually originally a short story in a collection of Christmas romance short stories that one of my writer friends was putting together and they all were going to be set in Leavenworth, which is a real town in America.

It's kind of Bavarian style and it goes hard at Christmas and we were all going to set ours.

There was a Christmas tree farm that was going to be featuring all the stories.

But Jill's gone on vacation, and the person in the house sitting for her, it's the man who broke Nikki's heart.

Harrison left Australia for a dream job and didn't make it through the probation period, ashamed he ended things with Nikki to give himself time to become a man who deserves her.

But when she shows up in Leavenworth, he realises the only thing that matters is winning her back, now.

Nikki isn't prepared for Harrison or his confession that he wants her back, but Jill's house is small, and Nikki and Harrison's chemistry is as electric as ever.

He lived in a cabin and read a lot.

It's not a bad life, is it? Every so often, he went to Leavenworth to catch a train, and he'd be gone for days, and nobody knew where he went.

Yeah, I blew it past as on the way to Leavenworth.

I've used it.

Mm-hmm.

And so we went up east on, I think it's 90.

And you hit Leavenworth.

And then we took a north and went into this ponderosa pine.

paradise this valley and the bottom there was a creek and there was a trout fishery too bad it was on the other side of the fence because we got hungry we were going down we're exploring looking for a place to set up our camp and build our fire build our shelters and and this is as a group

is that a thing oh

yeah that's a thing you could travel all over the united states well there's one in washington called leavenworth and i don't i don't want to i guess i do yeah we won't get in trouble with anybody's bureau leavenworth is a great place for seniors to go on an excursion you know but it's it's you don't go there for your beer hall experience go to munich for your beer hall experience

Um, Rick, before we say goodbye to you, there's a thing we like to do on this show called touch grass, which is where we say what is getting us off our screens and out into the world.

And we often share something that we've done in the last week.

Everyone's flying into the same major, you know, 100 destinations, but there's 4,000.

So, like, there's this tiny little mountain town in Leavenworth, called Leavenworth in Washington.

And if you fly into Seattle, dude, it takes like three hours to drive to Leavenworth.

There is, at Wenatchee, little airport, 20 minutes outside of Leavenworth, little airport strip.

And there's this cabin that we're looking at, Montana, and nine and a half miles away, it's got a little landing strip, right? And so I'm like, all of a sudden, you start adding up the time savings of, okay, so I don't have to wait at an airport, I don't have to go through TSA, I don't have to follow, I don't have to have someone risk putting me on a no-fly, whatever, because I'm not wearing my mask the way that they like, there's no masks.

Oh,