Sequim Bay Lodge

hello all! I work for the local kayak shop and we're currently offering winter lessons in the pool. Whether a beginner or experienced paddler, our classes are designed to further your skills, and increase your margin of safety when paddling on our Northwest waters. *Sign up soon, limited space available! Call: 360-379-3608 Email: ptoutdoors@mac.com Visit us at: PT Outdoors / 1017 Water street: Saturdays & Tuesdays 11- 3pm

Lease-purchased the house and have a property manager, adopted out the animals, auctioned the personal possessions, then WW and I drove from Southern Illinois to the Olympic Peninsula, staying in Council Bluffs IA (looked good in the rear view mirror), Sturgis SD (nice quiet time to be there), Bozeman MT ( very nice college town), and Spokane WA (didn't see much there), before arriving in the Puget Sound area, where we stayed for a couple of weeks with WW's ...

... 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.

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 ...

We managed to make our ferry with time to spare, the ocean was calm and we had the most amazing crimson sunrise while sailing across the Juan de Fuca Strait to Port Angeles. With a long drive ahead of us we stopped on the peninsula for a cup of coffee and a chance to get our land legs back. We lunched at Applebee’s in Olympia then drove on to Kelso to check out the Target store and get our supplies for the week. (OK it was to get candy…..)

... tourist town. Went to the tip and right on the water are RV spots with full hookup...what a view this would have been but sometimes you don't find out about the Public spots.

Since we had time we decided to go up one of the few roads in the Olympic National Park. Again, thank you Pres. Teddy & Franklin Roosevelt. Teddy made this area a National Monument and then Franklin made it a park and it is truly amazing and especially the area it ...

... wanted to check out Sequim and neighboring towns for some time now to see if we would settle in the Northwest. This area is charming with sun and very beautiful towns and ocean and forests and people....but....alas....too cold for Andy and me. We will keep on our journey and let the weather lead us to the right place for a full time home. Till then, the RV is perfect for us.

Hello! here I am, just waiting for Friday to come. our flight leaves from Seattle early in the morning to end up in Rome, and i am soooooo excited! we pack tomorrow for the trip, and then we (family friends and i ) head out to the first country i have ever been to besides the USA. sooo excited!! we plan to take a tour of the Vatican once in Rome, among other things...

... find that someone had broken off the driver sideview mirror. We didn't need it. Who really wants to be able to see on your left side while you drive. I feel it's absence makes a trip just that much more exciting. Some other notables of the evening included cream cheese and grilled onion hot dogs (they are AMAZING! I wish I thought about them first!), smoke, and inaudible babel with randoms at the hostel. The evening came to a close with ...

... riders about college age made a remark to the tune of "people think it's cold here, it's actually the warmest place in Canada." it was a moment of realization. The next day we traversed to the middle of the city and saw a 19th century castle. See the pics for more about that. Our hotel was right across the street from the Royal BC museum so that made it easy for us to see both of those ...

... Pacific, and off to our right the barely visible white peak of Mount Baker, at 10778" Elevation, challenged Mount Olympus for attention. Someone spotted a Killer Whale (Orca) which repeatedly surfaced ahead of us. Although it was clearly visible we never came close enough for pictures. I was told that Killer whales are not really killers, that they are very gentle. The waters in Victoria Harbor ...