Borders fall away: Rebecca Feld’s journey to Saturna Island fulfills a promise made on the water - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Borders fall away: Rebecca Feld’s journey to Saturna Island fulfills a promise made on the water - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Rebecca Feld had never set foot on Saturna Island. Her ancestors had — traveling by canoe between the San Juan and Gulf islands long before an international border cut through waters that once simply belonged to family. Last month, Feld finally made that crossing herself, and she says the trip would never have happened without one man’s promise: Ross Newport’s.