Well! With the cockpit finished we moved onto paint. Having learned a lot over the last two years I am surprised that i still make dumb decisions. It was getting cold at night and two coats of paint lost their sheen do to dew. In any case after four or so coats, and a few good ones, we decided to give up for the winter on painting and move insid...

Monday 18th August We left after breakfast and drove up to Bellingham which is about 10 miles from the Canadian border. This was to be our last day in the states. As the weather was terrible we decided to go to a mall. We found a really good one called the Bellis Fair Mall which is obviously very popular with Canadians, who come across the borde...

so just sitting here on the reception desk of a mining company doing absolutely f-all. It's bizarre really, all these people just paying premiums for temps to sit in their offices trying to stay awake! Have just put in for a real job - see how that goes. In the meantime, we are doing much more exciting things with our time outside of work.(Note:...

May 18, 2006 Up the I-5 Corridor Portland to Beyond Seattle Chuckanut Mountain Bellingham, Washington Mile - (About) 1125 This was to be one of the only interstate days (yes, all day) of the trip. With the river, then the sound on one side, and the snowy Cascades on the other, the only way consistently north in this part of the world is the drea...

Tuesday, August 2 - Today was a whale of a day! We headed down to the Bellingham harbor where we arrived at 8:15am, checked in at the boat terminal and picked up our tickets. We had about 15 minutes to spare so found a little gift shop where we heard the story on plank cooking and even bought a plank cookbook. It will be fun to try it out with s...