January 20 - February 1, 2006 Port Townsend - Anacortes, Wash. Loop We’ve completed the first leg of our shakedown cruise, as yesterday Matilda waltzed a full circle and is back to a place in the road she’s traversed before: Anacortes, Wash. Granted, it’s not far from our home port of Port Townsend, which we and Matilda (our Volkswagen Vanagon camper-van) departed on January 20, but in the last week and a half, we’ve all had our share of adventures and lessons learned. I (Shelly) will begin this first on-the-road entry of our 2006 Sabbatical travel blog by noting that transitions are hard. We didn’t expect this one to be easy. But neither did we anticipate how wrenching it would be to uproot ourselves, even willingly, from our settled life for this very different, albeit temporary,
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