Crai writes more than 80 travel, lifestyle, and business articles a year for over 25 publications. He is the travel commentator on numerous radio programs, his first book of humor—on farts—sold 160,000 copies in one year, and he still begins most days in his studio as he has since he was 13 years old: spilling ink into his journal. Seattle: staying in a downtown hotel, Bainbridge Island ferry, dining al fresco at Winslow’s Four Swallows, Lake Washington Boulevard on a summer Sunday, skiing in the Washington Cascades.

Crai S Bower