Best Western College Way Inn Mount Vernon

Fort Flagler is a Washington State Park located at the end of Marrowstone Island. It is a former (1897-1953) United States Army fort. It is named after Brig. Gen. Daniel Webster Flagler. It's main purpose was to guard the entrance to the Puget Sound, along with Fort Worden and Fort Casey.<br><br>The park itself sits on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound. On a clear day it has spectacular views of the Olympic and ...

... the pieces of the 787 inside! It's huge and the tail opens like a door so that the 787 pieces can slide in and out on conveyors!<br><br>In the late afternoon we drove to Bellevue on the eastern side of Lake Washington. We visited the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The drive back to Seattle at sunset was amazing. We had dinner in Seattle at Von's, fantastic food!

... great vistas along cliffs. This weekend is the Oyster Run with 100s of bikes entertaining the local populace. <br>Mt Baker and neighbors spring up with snow-covered summits from time to time. The temp hovers from 68 - 74F in these lowlands. <br>Would not be hard to spend a week here, with orca and bird watching and the mountain roads.<br>

... von dem netten Herrn mit dem wir hier wohnen. Der Mechaniker der sich um die ganzen Flugzeuge kümmert hat Renae und mich dann auch auf einen kleinen Rundflug mitgenommen. Niko war auch völlig begeistert weil in den Flugzeughangars auch ein paar alte BMWs und andere Autos standen. <br><br> The next morning, Harold invited us to go to hsee personal airplane collection at the Skagit Aero Educational Museum, which he founded and built in ...

... and out of the water to breathe. Once some dolphins swam in their wake. An announcement from the bridge boomed the news, "We've spotted some Orcas port side. Killer whales at three o'clock." I ran over and saw their dark bodies gracefully cutting over the surface. As they rose up, the whites of their bodies glimmered in the sun. The Orcas were smaller than I expected though I don't know what I expected. I guess with a name like ...

... Cherokee plowed through two protective wire barriers and struck a coach head-on while traveling on I-5 north of Seattle. The Jeep burst into flames, the driver died, and the wreck blocked traffic in the entire city for several hours. Peter and I saw the wreck on T.V. and, absentmindedly, got in the car heading north on I-5 to Sedro-Woolley. When we finally made it through the inching traffic we realized the next day was ...

... The past few days were scorchers, with temperatures above 30 degrees, but today was much cooler and much more pleasant. * There was some debate about this -- seems that leaving the bones in is more typical of Hong Kong (Singapore/Malaysian style would have the bones taken out); does that mean that Hong Kongers are lazy because they don't take out the bones when they prepare the chicken, or are Singaporeans lazy because they don't want to have to eat around the bones?

... to solicit medical attention, saying that she just wanted to stay in bed. And after taking a pain killer, that is exactly what she did. I decided this was the morning to get the oil changed in the truck and to replace the tires on the trailer. I had put on a new spare back a thousand miles or so on good old highway 37, as reported earlier. This morning I changed a tire that had a slow leak, for the past four days, with the second new spare we had ...

After three weeks of our Guaymas adventure it was time to head back to San Diego to catch our flight back to Vancouver. From Vancouver we took the overnight bus back to Jasper. Before and after our trip Amanda and I worked at a hotel which supplied staff accommodation When we arrived nice and early in Jasper we woke ...