Bishop Victorian Hotel Port Townsend

... ul>Mark and I went to Fort Flagler for July 4th weekend. It was packed with people from all over. One of our favorite things is to ride our bikes and look at all of the license plates on the vehicles and campers. We like to see how many are from out of state.<br><br>We really enjoyed Fort Flagler. It offers great trails for riding bikes (you share with the hikers). It was a lot of fun exploring the old ...

... 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>

... br><br>I joined some local paddlers on Lake Crescent, NW of<br>here--I think within the Nat Park-- beautiful, blue-green water from<br>the glaciers in the Nat Park, and as the day wore on, the waters got<br>choppier; my companions packed up and went home, but I stayed another<br>hour and played in the water. Living in Tucson, being in water is just<br>such a luxury and not to be taken for granted. <br><br>

Kari Sly arrived from California on March 24, and finally the Lady Nighthawks are completed. All eight players played together for the first time that evening. It's a talented and versatile group, and they will need it as they go up against teams that have been playing together for years. We have three from Port Townsend, three from Chimacum, one from Port Angeles and one from California.

... to East, returning from whence they began, but from the opposite direction. First stop over the ocean will be Hong Kong with trips into the Chinese mainland. Then, a few more Asian stops, including Angkor Wat, and Wat Pho -- the site of their nuptials a dozen or so years ago ...

... and interesting design way of cataloguing books (literally ascending/descending down the building) designed by Coolhouse - my dad would be proud of me. Then Pike Place market and lunch in the Athenium restaurant overlooking the river/sea, where we had clam chowder and scallops and sat in the seats from 'Sleepless in Seattle'. Then onto the first Starbucks from 1970 something. Then shopping went to Macys ...

... doing. There's a uniformed person handing out blobs of paper. I turn around, drive two miles back down the road, and get in line at the side of the road. Moving slowly. Andrew is still too sleepy for conversation. Ah, the dreaded cell phone will come in handy now. I call my Dad, in Alabama. We have our Sunday evening chat. He tells me a joke. I talk to Opal, my step-mom. I ask her if she's ever heard of a tally slip. "I've got to GET one, I'll let you ...

... making their way home after a holiday in the States. As we traveled we noted spots we knew -Odlin Park on Lopez, places we had paddled -and that's a whole 'nother story- and the Lonesome Cove Resort on San Juan Island. This is a place with 6 cabins, on the shore, grassy and isolated with a view of Speiden Island and Channel. But because it's on San Juan Island -and not some no name island in a less desirable location-, it ...

Seattle, where my friends (Barry & Denise live) was only a 3 hour drive from Vancouver, so it was nice to be collected at the train station. We had lunch in Vancouver and then headed down to Seattle. Tonia a friend of mine came over the previous night so she got to see a little of Vancouver too! Seattle is a great city - my friends live in the suburbs so it's about a half hour drive from downtown Seattle (did I mention the fact that I ...