http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Washington , Skagit Valley en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:10:20 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:10:20 UTC After more than 30 hours of travel we returned to the Pacific Northwest via Amsterdam. The Nairobi airport is not the best place to wait for three hours...but we made it through without resorting to buying more souvenirs...We arrived in Amsterdam at 530 am after an 8 hour flight. It was a gloomy cold day in the Netherlands so we decided to stay in the airport for our seven plus hour layover.. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/blog-349820.html We had a wonderful trip to Connecticut and NYC at the beginning of the month a great road trip to Eastern Washington last week and a long kayak paddle yesterday to Whidbey Island. We will leave for Seattle on Sunday and I fly off to Kenya via Amsterdam with my friend Vicki on Monday.We will be staying in Nairobi for a few days and then heading north to Nyeri where Mt. Kenya Academy is locate http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/blog-337791.html Our first intentional community visit in the US http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/blog-221990.html Tulip FarmnbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspWashington raquonbspSkagit Valley By Grant and JodieApril 15th 2007Grant P Jodie O Tulip Farm Festival Today we went to the Tulip farms out in a town called Skagit approx 1 hrs away from Seattle. We had lunch at a country style caf on the way where we had some yummy sandwiches which are pretty hard to get as they donrs http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/blog-154895.html Not the great European cities you were hoping for eh I thought I'd better put Blanchard up there with them since I had a bout of preemptive homesickness and a new camera the week before I left. After that I had the world's most ridiculous flight 90 minute drive to Seattle to catch a 50 minute flight to Vancouver BC where I sat for 5 hours before my flight to London. Hellish as it sounds http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Skagit-Valley/blog-132141.html