Explore the Washington Fruit Basket and taste wine by horse or by hayride written by Lauren Kramer On a recent evening in Zillah, a small town 20 miles southeast of Yakima, I sat outside absorbing the quiet serenity of a valley bathed in so light. Before me orchards filled with neat rows of cherry, apple and peach trees stretched for miles, their lush fruit ripening as one hot day rolled into the next. Mount Adams and Mount Rainier were still heavily snowcapped, their peaks like ghosts in the far-off distance. Behind me, the door of my teepee flapped in the … Continue reading Explore the Washington Fruit Basket in the Yakima Valley