Monthly Archives: September 2018
West Coast Spring 2018 – Lopez Island
July 23 – 25 With the short ferry ride to Lopez Island completed, a five-mile drive took us to Spencer Spit State Park for the next three nights. Featuring two sand spits that join to form a briny marsh lagoon, the park is a popular migratory stop for waterfowl, including Bonaparte’s gulls, great blue herons […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Orcas Island
July 21 – 23 Given how close this group of islands are to each other, the ferry ride to Orcas wasn’t very long. We were scheduled for just two nights there, our original intention to spend three on each island (San Juan, Orcas, and Lopez) got short circuited due to a festival on Orcas that […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – San Juan Island, Part Three
July 17 – 20 Leaving English Camp, we continued south onto West Side Road, stopping briefly at one of a number of Alpaca Farms, the animals having been recently shaved to harvest their wool and keep them cool in the summer heat. Not long after that we arrived at Lime Kiln Point State Park, a […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – San Juan Island, Part Two
July 17 – 20 As planned, we took off the next morning on our bikes to attempt a ride around the island. Turning left out of the resort onto Roche Harbor Road we continued north to the tip of the island, skirting its airport and making a brief stop at Roche Harbor there before turning […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – San Juan Island, Part One
July 17 – 20 The drive up to Sidney didn’t take long and with about two hours before sailing we located the dock from which we’d depart and then drove a mile or so into downtown to look for a place to eat. It’s a nice little spot on the island, a few blocks crowded […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Victoria, Part Three
July 14 – 16 With another glorious morning ahead of us (good weather would follow us the whole trip) we set out on the bikes on a route laid out in a cycling map that our campground host loaned me. We’d end up with 26.5 miles in total and almost circle the peninsula. The first […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Victoria, Part Two
July 14 – 16 We’d opted for the in-camp breakfast the next morning which for us included the Belgian Waffles (1 waffle using their free-range eggs served with homemade berry sauce and syrup with whipped cream) and the scrambled eggs (2 free-range eggs scrambled, Canadian Bacon and 2 slices of homemade toast with homemade jam), […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Victoria, Part One
July 14 – 16 With a three hour drive ahead of us to clear customs and catch our 12:45 ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria, we wanted to leave plenty of time for Jenny Manetta to bugger things up, we made sure we were out the door by 8:00am. Just before hitting the road we […]
West Coast Spring 2018 – Seattle, Part Four
July 10 – 13 We met Lincoln for dinner that night at Frank’s Oyster House and Champagne Parlor, just a couple of miles from our place and not far from UW, where he is a senior level administrator. I first met him in the late 1990’s when I was the Director of the Student Union […]
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