Sea Loft Port Townsend

... 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!

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!

Well, another oil change and a new front tire. Skagit Valley Polaris folks couldn't be nicer. My, how the money flies. Hard to believe the big fella is over 13,000 mi old now. Ran an errand in Bellingham and now riding south along the coast (Chuckanut Dr and Rte 11 - ah, the evergreen scent) to Anacortes. The road is glorious with twisties ...

... 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.

... each other and to find where our lives and hearts intersected. The next morning, a Sunday, we put our disassembled packs and cart into Lisa and Chips car and headed for their Sunday gathering. There we were again warmly welcomed by the congregation which, by the way, was lively and enthusiastic and was clearly a loving community with lots of meaningful programs and activities. During the beginning of the service we gave an abbreviated version of our skit to an ...

... their own. Our three support vehicles are either running ahead to set-up base, roving to make sure all pods are ok and accounted for, or running for food and essentials. The first days have been LONG, and arduous, but the team is already starting to pull together as we fight through together to achieve this crazy goal. Our logistics have been a bit out but with walkie talkies in each pod its usually easy enough to get back on ...

... SK too advantage of that! So, we still end up in first place in the round-robin and will end up playing SK AGAIN in the gold medal game tomorrow at noon! Game number 3.....perhaps we will all be on a first name basis with each other after playing so many games!! More updates to come tomorrow!

... Lacy: "How many countries did you visit?" Dryver:"Including Monaco, which technically is a country, eleven and if you include the stopover in Doha, Qatar that's twelve but whose counting really...?! I Flew to England-then it was portugual-spain-italy -back to spain-france-italy-back to england up to scotland-thailand-Laos-Vietnam-Cambodia back to Thailand and flew to France to meet my mom-then last stop was New York city to visit ...

... and customs. One young chap was detained and the bus left to continue its journey to Seattle without him. The sniffer dog didn't detect anything so we are guessing he simply didn't have his paperwork in order. Before we go any further with details of Seattle, I have a small guessing competition for you. Who can guess how many Starbuck shops are in the Seattle. Answer at the bottom of this entry. Anyway, first off we headed to ...

... address/telephone numbers etc). - Should I write a journal, Internet blog/travelogue? Should I bring a laptop? - What kind of camera do I bring? Where/how do I store the pictures? - Update CV and send it to yourself in an e-mail to your new Hotmail account. You may need this on the road. - Loans/bills. - Internet banking may come in handy to sort out finances while on the road (beware of potential fraud/security issues, keystroke ...

... the El Sarape restaurant where we enjoyed a huge Mexican seafood dinner. After dinner we had drinks at a nearby tavern. We walked about and explored the two streets that make up downtown. PortTownsend is one of the last seaports in the country to retain a Victorian flavor. In the 1880's schooners, barks, all craft carrying freight from the orient to the Pacific Northwest had to put in here to clear through customs. Maritime ...