Anacortes, United States

... and drove immediately to the American Camp at San Juan Island National Historical Park.  It commemorates the "Pig War" between the United States and England when the two countries almost went to war over a shot pig which resulted in a twelve year ...

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... the I5 running up the west coast of Washington.   We stopped for information in a visitors centre and then drove out to Anacortes which is on an island just off the main land.   We headed for a city park called Washington Park on the end of ...

I would never have believed it in a million years. Not only did we leave the house on time (right to minute, 7 AM), we got to Anacortes with no glitches, found the ferry dock, and breezed right through the gate. No line, we made the 8:45! I had aimed for ...

... in a somewhat less-than-professional manner. The female of the couple, it turned out, had been born in Norway and had moved to the United States as a young woman. She’d lived in Minneapolis for a number of years, and used to hang out at the Sons of ...