Waterfall Gardens Bainbridge Island

... Everyone ate as they shared with us ideas of what sights and areas to take in next in our travels. Barb and Doug left with Merc to see Welfare Ave and help him tighten things up for the painters tomorrow. Alec sat down with the Rand McNally Map and proceeded to deliver an irresistable expose of "the knuckle" in the most northeastern tip of Oregon. Andy and I sat in rapture over his descriptions and decided to follow his direction! Carlee encouraged ...

... picked Washington cherries for dessert. Merc served up the wine he brought to enhance the meal. I thoroughly enjoyed the meal and the conversation. I hope I get to meet up with Alec, Lynn and Gary again and again! Tired and inspired and full of good cheer, Merc and I drove home. I fell asleep after another wonderful day in the Northwest. Mercury has a wonderful life filled with good friends and lots of love. We are so blessed to get to be a part of it for a while.

... day. We did a bit of tree and fence work and then settled down to have dinner in the RV. After dinner a raccoon arrived to check out the smells emminating from the RV. She (I'm guessing) is a particularly beautiful racoon with a glistening coat with black eyes shining through a black mask. Mercury decided to try feeding her from the step of the RV. We gave him a corn chip with some crabmeat dip....she hardly gave it a second's thought as ...

Miss the flight previous night, arrive Seattle at noon. 12pm - Hai's House, drop off luggage 1pm - Space Needle 2:30pm - Waterfront Park 3pm - Stop to a bowl of Clam Chowder 3:30pm - Seattle Aqurium 4:30pm - Seattle Art Museum 5:30pm - Pike's Market 6pm - Cocktail crab & shrimp at Pike's Place 6:30pm - walk back toword Space Needle, Ride the Duck ticket sold out 7:30pm - met with Eric, went to eat 10pm - tango

... for her 4th of July booth at the Town Fair. We all pitch in to make it a success. Carlee, as is her style, has everything beautifully arranged and managed. It can't miss!!! July 4th On our way to the fair, Andy, Mercury and I stop in at Merc's ReMax office to see where he does his magic!!! He has become the Bainbridge Island and beyond REaltor extradinaire! www.mercurymichael.com The Town Fair is fabulous ...

... which founded by the co-founder of Microsoft, another factette for you there. The ticket also gained us entry in to the Science Fiction Museum which was just as well as between them there was almost enough entertainment to justify the entry price. There wasn't a lot to the science bit, just a few space things in displays. Paul Allen seemed to own most of the collection, but I suppose when you're a Microsoft co-founder you can afford a few toys. I got told off for ...

... in the Vietnam War so he has many good and bad memories and they used to live on a sailing boat in Turkey for 10 years, so they traveled around the Aegean Sea for that time and have been to many of the surrounding countries. The thought of having a sailing boat I think is just incredible. And now as both are retired, they are traveling around the world in small doses, each year seeing somewhere new or even revisiting the places that they have visited before, but just loved so ...

... overlooks the water and the property has a variety of different landscapes to walk through.. The Reserve is currently privately owned and immaculately kept. The day we were there a ...

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... of waved us right through. When an actress has reached god like status in a country. (Angelina in Cambodia) When a Muslin women is working at a shop that sells swim wear...but she is still fully covered shawl and all. When you see a Tibetan monk shopping for a cell phone?? What happened to renunciation? When you Tibetan guide tells you not to talk about any conserversial issues in the Potala Palace. "They have ears everywhere" he said. But then stop laughing when you find ...