Blogs from Port Townsend, Washington, United States, North America

A peaceful morning in Portage Bay developed into a throng of kayaks, speedboats, sailboats, and Ride the Duck boats making our exit out of Lake Union an adventure of avoidance. It's a beautiful day in Seattle and everyone is doing something outside. As luck would have it we found a green light into the small locks and wedged ourselves between small saiboats and speedboats. We wedged the bow alongside an old wooden cruiser with an older couple expertly handling the lines. Of course BJ made friends with the lady in the ten minutes it took us to drop to the sea and found out that they were bound for their 45th trip to Alaska. Yes, I heard it too - 45 trips! In that little time she learned that he was a dentist who practiced under ... read more

Yep that’s right, I’m back on a boat. This time headed from Washington to Hawaii. Before everyone freaks (and rightly so after my previous gig), let me say that its been the POLAR OPPOSITE of my last experience. Exhausted from the whole Captain Dave debacle, I had pretty much shelved the sailing idea for now. Instead I thought I’d stay on Quadra Island and maybe travel overland to Alaska and the Yukon for the summer before returning home. However, each time I would recall my story to the Quadra locals about how I came to be there, the response was almost always the same: “Oh, you just missed Alice. She’s awesome but she just left to sail to Hawaii”. Turns out she only got as far as Port Townsend before running into a delay which meant ... read more

Yet another month has gone by in Port Townsend. Sorry we are short on the pictures this month but the camera just didn't even make it out until the very last week! March has been an interesting month. We have started to do a lot of different things and are meeting new people, making new friends, gardening, yah, pretty awesome. It is so crazy to look around and see all of these flowers blooming and working out in the garden for hours on end when we know that Colorado is still getting massive amounts of snow. It does make for a large craving of snowboarding! We are getting really excited about being able to plant so many things in our garden in the next month or so. There are already starters at the stores for onions, ... read more

Our friends, Justin Porter and Adri Vanbianchi, were wed on September 5. It was an extraordinary celebration!! A coming together of two people so in love, and of their vibrant and embracing families. Although the ceremony had the polish of being planned and rehearsed, it was not at all stiff or contrived. The genuine joy, love and sincerity of the couple and their families radiated as they interacted with warmth, ease and casualness before us all as witnesses. The ceremony was a remarkable combination of complimentary motifs and traditions Elements of Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism combined to give meaning and richness. The gray concrete bunker of Fort Warden was transformed into a ritualistic and celebratory space with brightly colored prayer-flag banners as a backdrop on the semicircular bunker wall and explosive bursts of brightly colored flowers ... read more