Blogs from Sequim, Washington, United States, North America

We made it! Back in the land of toilet seat covers, soft kleenex and, in our case, drizzly skies. Spacious cars, wide roads and my own pace... it's good be home... We left Jerusalem, that is, our hotel in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. As our plane departed early, 5:30AM Wednesday, we had to be at the airport by 2:30AM, which necessited we leave Jerusalem by 1:00AM, we decided not to pay for another night at our hotel. So, by the time we boarded our plane in Tel Aviv, we'd already been up almost 24 hours. Needless to say we were pretty pooped, so the plane ride from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt to Seattle to Portland was, to be completely frank, miserable...!!! We had a little "incident" in Frankfurt, however. Backing up a bit, one of the ... read more

One more thing... I want to recommend to you all that you also tune into our traveling companions blog, Rob & Susie Knudson and their son Mitchel. Their blogs are excellent descriptions from another perspective of the places we've been. Google Susie and Rob Knudson on travelblog.org. Shalom again...... read more

Well, this is it! I've survived the techno-journey into blogger-land, surely I can make it to Israel. They said it'd be easy they just didn't tell me I'd have to read the instructions. This is my first blog and the first test on my first blog. I've added all my favorite peeps to my suscriber list ~ apparently all suscribers receive automatic notification when ever I post a new blog entry ~ so if you'd rather not be included on my favorite peeps list please just let me know and I'll delete you ~ no fuss, no muss, no hard feelings. Ron and I are so excited to be going to Israel. We've been there once before on a huge tour but this will be different ~ smaller group of people and with a different focus. ... read more

(unten das Deutsche) C says: We love this city and are not 'sleepless'! Ha ha! Me again: It's true though, we've got a fantastic hostel with a fireplace with comfy cushion area and a wood effect fireplace. So cosy- don't want to leave! Visited downtown Seattle yesterday and walked around all day today. We had Jalapeno Chilli and Strawberry Ice cream near a Lenin statue in a cool neighourhood called Fremont. Yum! Donika now has a tummyache because she ate too much chocolate during our guided tour through THEO's chocolate factory-also in Fremont. It was really interesting to find out about chocolate production right from the plant and bean to an actual bar. We're planning to visit a Cocoa plantation in Costa Rica now! Seattle is the nicest city we've visited so far. Lots of lovely ... read more

We visited Sequim, Washington and the surrounding area on an extended weekend trip during July of 2007. I did not write a day by day account of this trip, so below I will provide a brief summary of the places we saw and things we did. Sequim is located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains. It is most famously known as one of the driest spots in Washington, only receiving an average of 15 inches of rain each year. Because of the lack of rain, the city has attracted many retirees, including Mike’s grandparents, who call Sequim home for six to seven months each year. Our reason for visiting the area was of course to visit his grandparents, but I also wanted to see ... read more

Have you ever wanted to spend a long evening crammed inside a dirty Northstar? I sure did, and that dream came true last weekend in Sequim, WA. After having dinner with our hosts, the H-s', we took our leave of the house and repaired to the quarters we were to share that evening. The Northstar's berths included one fold out table, suitable for single accomodation, and one upper bunk, capable of sleeping two. After Mass was routed by a double Rock, Paper, Scisors loss, it was determined that I would enjoy the single bed, whilst Mass shared the upper bunk with Ruby. Mass did not find this acceptable. Without going into the ugly details, let's just say that Mass took his loss poorly and boycotted the Northstar all together. So much for Mass. Anyway, shortly after ... read more