Quality 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 ...

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. <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>

... Washington. What a beautiful location! Surrounded by lakes, rivers, and mountains, one of them including Mt. Baker, it is one of the most picturesque places I have been to. After ooing and awwing at his collection of classic planes, models, and cars, I was invited to fly in his biplane. Unfortunately, they had some problems getting the plane started, but it didnät matter, I was able to fly in an equally beautiful plane, a 1936 Fairchild (colors ...

... AND JACKIE, ROD, LENENE, BOB, LIBBY, AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO HELPED US GET TO RENO AND FLY. TOM WHO HELPED GET ME OUT OF BLYTHE AND ALLEN, SONNY AND THE BLYTHE AIRPORT GANG, AND AN ESPECIALLY HUGE CHUNK OF CREDIT GOES TO THE SUPPORT OF MIKE SCIMONE AND AFS FILTERS FOR THEIR BELIEF IN US AND THEIR VERY KIND AND GENEROUS BACKING. THANKS LENENE FOR ALL YOU DO.......ZIP

... envelope and told "blah, blah, blah" in rapid fire American language, He asked for an interpretation and was told, (as best as he could interpret)" fill in the too and from on the front and bring it back" Ok got that! Now the envelope with its sealed contents is filled in with the "to and From bits on the front" Rick returns to the counter to find the woman has closed her counter (gee we opened at 11 am and it is now 11:30am must have been a busy half hour) but was directed to ...

All six of us (my family + Gordon and Nellie) piled into my parents' rental car which looked like a car they shouldn't be driving for another 20 years. Can you say...grandpa car? But it held all of us anyhow. We drove what was a rather short distance to the Canada/United States border. We passed without too much difficulty...I guess we didn't look like murderers. Anywho, Hello Canada! Lynn Canyon was our first ...

... for making pulp for paper. The trees around the road were unevenly distanced about 16 feet, which Mike informed us is the optimum spacing for commercial logging. The vegetation on the ground consisted of ferns, blackberrys, and other bushes crunched by the tracks of the logging machinery and the tree trunks they had fallen. Beyond the piles of logs and scattered stumps, almost out of view, was an impossibly dense wall of green ...

So this is it, we've left. Though we won't be in Japan for another two and a half weeks, we've officially moved: we turned in the car, our things are all boxed (either for long-term storage or shipment) and the keys to the house have been given to the new owner. A few times today I found myself wondering whether I was really awake; when you've been planning something, looking forward to something for over two years (and it wasn't the "I hope ...

... is a branch of Krogers and they are super stores, not unlike a Super Wal Mart, but nicer and maybe even friendlier. We first saw them in Fairbanks and then again in Skagway. To make a long story shorter, we left $90 lighter with enough bags to restock our freezer, refrigerator, and the cupboards Pat had just rearranged. We both are very impressed with Bellingham. It seems like a great city, not too large, but large enough to have most of the important ...