http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Washington , Port Townsend en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:38:24 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:38:24 +0000 What a luxury it is to read a good book. What could be better Here's what. Being able to read that book in the author's homewriting studio while lying in an amazingly comfortable bed and after finishing the book being able to discuss it with her after she feeds you an amazing dinner. The stuff of fantasy you might ask You might be right but it actually happened to us. All thanks to Erica Bauer http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-443039.html 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 interac http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-441612.html 9309 So correct me if I'm wrong but I could have sworn that the idea was for Melisse and me to travel around for a year collecting experiences and riding out the recession in light of the fact that neither of us had jobs. Huh. It seems that the universe in its best ironic impersonation of the mad hatter is angling to have other plans for us. That's right we seem to have numerous offers for gain http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-433887.html So as our travels continue the amount of little misadventures increases and with that I realize our blog becomes more and more cumbersome to read. THUS a new amendment... the trip summarytoday's summary is as followsmileage 70 miles 130 miles over the past two daysweather cloudy misty rain cold someone needs to tell the weather people that this is NOT appropriate for summerhealt http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-427418.html Drove down the rode to Olympic National Park in the morning. Started off on Hurricane Ridge. Very nice views of the mountain range and wild mountain flowers all over the place. Walked a trail there and headed down the road to Sol duc Springs. Walked a trail there to a really cool waterfall. Headed back towards Port Townsend after that but stopped to walk a trail to the Marymere Falls. After http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/Port-Townsend/blog-415834.html Didn't have internet access there for a couple of days so I'm going to try to remember everything and get these caught up. Left Seattle on the 3rd. Took the ferry over to Whidbey Island and stopped in Langley. Panicked a little when they told me at the chamber of commerce that the earliest I could get a reservation on the ferry over to Port Townsend was 1100 pm. Walked around in Langley a li http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/Port-Townsend/blog-415811.html 13th June 2009. Port Townsend Washington.Another nice day breakfast and then a walk downtown walked through the older part of town old port warehouses etc lots of restaurants tourist shops then down past the marina's and boat repair area's most of the fishing boats out of the water looks like they are nearly ready to go back in for the fishing season. The Visitor Center gave us some info http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/Port-Townsend/blog-408293.html We thoroughly enjoyed our BB stay. Thank you to the kids for the gift certificate.We toured the shops restaurants the Rose theater and Fort Worden.Our stay was at the Blue Gull Inn. Cozy quiet comfortable excellent breakfasts and a jacuzzi tub.Clam chowder at Fins 12 was superb. They use butter clams shell and all and it is really really good. Of course we also had salmon and shrimp http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/Port-Townsend/blog-276396.html Washington's incredibly bipolar spring weather teased us with another glimpse of the elusive sun this weekend. Thankfully we were in a perfect place to enjoy this rare scrap of warm weatherthe Olympic Peninsula. My parents moved back to Sequim after years of restlessly circulating around the U.S. and now occupy the house that once belonged to my grandparents. Despite leading what I feel to be http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-270747.html Here is a lovely spring visit to the Olympic Peninsula west of Seattle WA USA. We enjoyed this special time with our daughter two granddaughters and many 'critters' but mainly dog Shadow and the cats. I show a few of the neat things we saw and enjoyed there. Tami is a young widow for nearly 5 years now and she has raised her three daughters through high school and out into the world. She is http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-268335.html Some in Port Hadlock others on ferries and across WA to Idaho and nearing the Canadian border http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-171542.html http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-170433.html http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-169191.html WALTZING MATILDA TRIP STATISTICS bull Spent 300 days on the road. bull Visited 41 states 5 provinces. bull Spanned 20 degrees of latitude and 62 degrees of longitude. bull Put 26225 miles on the odometer. Link to Wayfarer route map with cities and states identified. OUR VEHICLE bull Gas mileage appr. 20 mpg. bull Estimated gallons of gas 1300mdasha 747 could fly only abou http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-167483.html June 10 2007 At home in Port Townsend Wash. Approx. 6 months after our return The following letter was mailed in April to the 160 families we came into contact with on our trip. It's been updated through June 2007 and along with a separate entry detailing our trip statistics see Final Trip Stats is intended to be the final entry of this epic travel blog. Thanks for following along 2 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-167478.html Who knew that one could ride out of one's driveway in Vancouver BC in the morning and be in Bellingham Washington in time for 3 o'clock tea Well that was DAY 1 of the great cycling journey to San Francisco. I arrived back in Vancouver on Wednesday from Thailand and we started riding on Sunday morning. So basically I had time to unpack do laundry eat and sleep a lot get bike roadready http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-158816.html November 10 December 10 2006 Arches National Park near Moab Utah Port Townsend Wash. 25796 miles wraps up our road trip2097 miles this final legAt 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Nov. 17 Matilda crossed into the original time zone from whence she came and well after dark at 730 p.m. we crossed the state border between Idaho and Washington and were HOMEOur road trip officially ended http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-109913.html I don't like this entry I am officially deleting it. Except really just editing it to say...well...this. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-36378.html We threw Sabbatical Sendoff Celebrations for ourselves Dec. 3 and 10 otherwise known as PutaPinintheMap Parties. We're building a list of contacts across the country who will be glad to show us around their home towns. Here are a couple of photos from these fun gettogethers.Our sabbatical officially begins January 1 2006 so look for the first travel entry early in the new year. We plan http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Port-Townsend/blog-29655.html