The Governor Hotel Olympia

... and a boat. the night before we left we had a special visitor, see the photos!!<br>At the end of the week, we were driven up to Seattle where we stayed the night with Robin and Paul Murphy, next morning at 7.15 am,  saw us at the Victoria Clipper ferry, en route to Victoria BC. <br>Amanda picked us up in Victoria , which is just as well as we had 6 bags of luggage. We will definitely  have to leave some stuff with her  until next year.<br> 

Mark:<br>Good Morning.<br><br>This is Day 10 since the transition from daily work life outside the home to daily work life inside the home. We've been packing and packing and cleaning and organizing until our heads virtually explode. I have become a professional storage unit filler-upper. Yes, I think that is a reasonable professional title and no, probably not much money in it. We spent yesterday continuing the process of organizing food for the next sixty days ...

... a little strange but excited. Time to let go of house plants and take a good look at the pile of stuff we have collected over the last 3 years. Where did all the stuff it all come from anyway? I guess we brought it home piece by piece but it is leaving car load by car load. I'm also excited not to be working toward a goal society told me to: like going to school, working 9 to 5.<br><br> It will most certainly be a crazy Year in the World.

In honour of the original quote board at the Casa, Bill and I kept a log of noteworhty quotes along the way. With over 5000 km and 4 months to think and reflect and talk, we certainly came up with some very deep and meaningful comments. "Do you want to queue for awhile...just to queue?" Bill in response to the crowds and long lines at the Prague Castle. 8.13.08 "It's about outcome management." Bill, on child-rearing. 8.26.08 "My emotional bucket is ...

... de mon voyage etant donne que je vais devoir ecrire ce blog aussi en anglais ainsi pas de jaloux. Bruxelles-Philadelphie, Philadelphie-Seattle, 16 Juin 2008 dans l`avion qui va atterir dans quelques minutes a Seattle, je suis nerveuse et j`en ai un peu marre apres 14 heures de vol, j`ai du faire 2 fois le check-in de mes baggages. Je vous raconte pas la galere, j`ai du faire rouler mes 50 kilos dans tout l`aeroport de ...

... 3 seats per row, 2 on one side, one on the other and I watch carefully as the propellers begin to spin. Oh great..this is how it begins and ends, World Trip ends prematurely when depressed bird commits suicide in one of the propellers!!! If that's not distracting enough I am wondering how much louder it can get before they pass out industry grade ear muffs because the sound is deafening!!! It all begins and ends quite quickly and I am on my way.

... trip is Ben, Jake Demming and myself.)I'm really excited, even though I'm not the biggest tool fan in the world, I can tell that they are one of those bands that will be awesome live, and at the gorge, one of the best outdoor venus in the west. It should proove to be an adventure, I'll add pictures soon. Next Tuesday the Army comes up to demo their system that I am building. check the pictures area I will post some pics of what I've been working on the last three weeks.

... back country one horse towns until we were ready to stop for the day. We have no idea where we were really but found a lovely camp site and settled down for the night. I did my evening wood hunt and found suffient for a decent fire, very cosy. From there we headed further north again the next night, past mendocino and onto a state park called Russian Gulch. Another beautiful sight near a stream in the pine forests just back from the sea. We spent the remainder of ...

... be taking over my bench space, supplies and the like. All good humorous stuff. More boring conference stuff ensued, with periods of fun times with these work friends, Eric, and Dawn. Went to a gaming place Thursday night. All you can play after 10pm for 10 dollars. And since it still felt like 7pm EST, I proceeded to beat Todd in basketball and both Eric and Todd in air hockey.. or, maybe I'm remembering that incorrectly???? The interview at Fred Hutch went better than ...

... made it to Seattle in one piece in really good time. We safely delivered the car to Mr and Mrs Hsu who were a very sweet elderly chinese couple. Mrs Hsu kindly made us some chinese tea, which Paul very discreetly (NOT!) threw over their front lawn....yum! Mr Hsu drove us to what he said was the main bus station and in fact, turned out to be a bus stop in the middle of no-where.........for the next installment in Seattle, see the next entry....