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Day 54: Back to the Evergreen State
Route: From Astoria, OR to Bainbridge Island, Washington (WA)
Kilometres: 294
It's always great to have a coffee shop attached to the hotel, and the one this morning had some good beans to wake up to. We checked out and drove over the historic Astoria bridge, into the Evergreen state of Washington (aka, almost home state!). It was …
Day 55: GOOO Mariners!
Route: ferry to Settle and back
Kilometres: none by car, couple by foot & ferry
We got up relatively early and hopped back on the ferry to Seattle to meet up with Lisa and Brian for brunch at Elliot's Oysterhouse. We took an earlier ferry (as many ferries were running late yesterday) so we got a chance to wander down along the …
Leaving Seattle for Vancouver
... hence to say they never made it that far. The train was formed of old stock, not what I had seen on the amtrack website, apparently the Spanish built stock was having a refurbishment, so they were having to use this one instead, same power car but old superliner stock. Boarding was good and managed to grab some pictures of the train, interesting that the Coaches are so tall, with the luggage and toilets beneath with ...
Additional Information for Pilots
... a convenient form a lot of weather maps from a variety of sources including the NOAA maps in the hidden files, Jeppesen current surface and forecast maps, lightning strikes in the last hour, etc. The information is divided by regions of the world which can be selected on the top line of the opening page. After the AWC site, this was usually my next stop.
For Europe and the North Atlantic I found a few region-specific websites that ...
Monterey to Bainbridge Island
... on the weather to improve in Eugene, I decided to skip Eugene and fly all the way back to Bremerton airport (KPWT) where this blog (and this trip) really started. Bremerton is the closest airport (in driving time) to my home on Bainbridge Island, has a 6000 foot runway and ILS and RNAV instrument approaches.
I filed IFR to Bremerton expecting low ceilings but no fog on landing. I filed for:
KMCE NEBBY V23 EUG V481 CVO V495 UBG V165 ...