Bishop Victorian Hotel Port Townsend

Wednesday we drove north to Everett to visit the Boeing. We took a tour of the 472 million cubic foot plant. Well, not exactly... we saw two sections of it. It's amazing to see how many planes are inside and how the process all comes together. We saw the new 787 Dreamliners being assembled. And we saw the Dream Lifter - a modified aircraft that can ...

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

... closed for he night, but we stilll enjoyed our walk. When we returned, we watched Gran Torino, while Niko returned to the garage to work on the car. Good news! He found the problem! Bad news... it couldn#t be repaired. Well, it could, but the repair would cost more than the worth of the car. Now what to do??? Fly to the East coast? Rent a car for next 3 weeks for about $700? Trade our car? Sell ours on Craigslist? We decided to go to bed and rest on it.

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

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.

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: following day they told me to bring a novel - i answered 4 calls and read 130 pages of my ...

... 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 ...

... what it looks like, oops, gotta go, I'm here." The uniformed person at the side of the road hands me a little strip of paper, and the line continues in downtown Kingston, a madhouse of ferry angst. Will we make the next one? That's the question on everyone's mind. Pay the fare, get in line, YES! We're scheduled NEXT! I call Andrew's Dad to let him know we're getting close. He spots our car via the online live ferry cam. Go stand by the black truck and wave ...

... seashore, deep in the rainforest, in a Tlinget Chief's house, back in a gold rush town, or in a mystical experience described by a village shaman. Of course, it's full of Northwest arts, crafts and historical pieces. During Jeff's phone call, Deb sat along James Bay (in front of the Empress Hotel), on the Inner Harbour. With Rubi, she had a conversation starter and met people from all over the world. We were also amazed that Rubi was very well mannered with both humans ...

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 ...