The Governor Hotel Olympia

Well its been a rather busy two weeks, after leaving Colville Washington, we headed north back into Canada. Every border crossing is a challenge and in Osoyoos,  British Columbia, we were asked to deposit all fruit and vegetables in a freezer, at the border crossing. When I opened the large chest freezer it was full of fruit , vegetables and eve...

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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 ...

Welcome to the wonderful world of MOVING. Stage 37 of our year-long traveling circus. Stages 1-36 required perseverance and fortitude, but we prevailed. We've started to move out of San Francisco Ave NE. What a cute little house. Yesterday, we moved everything we had already packed over the last few months. It's a great feeling for some of us. A...

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...

C`est donc moi, Sihame, 22 ans. C`est avec grand plaisir que je veux vous faire partage mon retour aux Etats-Unis Apres 3 ans d`absence. Pour ceux qui ne me connaissent pas, j`ai eu la chance d`etre une etudiante echange en 2004-2005 a Olympia, la capitale de l`Etat de Washington. Cette ville se trouve au Nord-Ouest des Etats-Unis sur la cote Pa...

Hello readers and welcome to my blog! I'm not sure how to be blogger, so hopefully this will be moderately interesting. I'll keep it as up to date as possible as I travel. I'm still in Seattle, packed and ready to go. I depart tonight at 10:30pm on one of my beloved "red-eye" flights to Atlanta. Tomorrow, I catch a 11:30am connection and arrive ...

Spet midva! Trenutno sva v Chicagu, sam sva vam dolzna se mal razlozit, kako sva prisla sem. V San Franciscu sva prezivela stiri dneve. Prva stvar, ki sva jo poleg mraza opazila, je bila revscina. Polno je brezdomcev, ki znajo biti posteno nadlezni. Tudi v hostlu se nisva pocutila najbolj varno, ker je bilo notri polno sumljivcev, ki so si med s...

Seattle...now before i came here i knew nothing about the place apart from the fact that they made a movie here called "sleepless in Seattle". Had no idea what to expect... Our first impressions were not great as the greyhound station is always in the dodgy area of town, but by the time we had got to the hostel our opinion had changed. The hoste...

From the alcoholic excess of Napa we headed west via Santa Rosa (to write the last couple of travel pods) and on to highway 1 probably one of the most famous stretches of bendy tarmac around. We hit Highway 1 and proceeded to travel north and the scenery was every bit as spectacular as we had hoped. It was very strange driving out of wine filled...

Hi again! We are back in Vancouver now after spending a few days in Seattle, it was a great city with so much to see and do! The day we left Vancouver it was pouring with rain and we had to trek about 15min to get to the car hire office, fair to say it was a bloody effort! Once picking up our Chevy Impala we started our 3hr journey to Seattle, w...