We spent a whole lot of time in Olympia getting our Spanish visa ducks in a row. It might work… or might not, but we’ve done what we can for now. Hours later, we arrived in Corvallis, the sweet little town where my parents met and married 69 years ago. Dad was a very young…
Okay… a little snag – a little, tiny one. Bright and early the morning of July 4, I celebrated by dropping my laptop directly on middle toe of my right foot, breaking it in a couple places and making a deep cut in the skin. Photos are available, but I don’t recommend them without a…
It’s amazing how much has to change when you leave an address, a city, work, friends, and family. Steve and I have spent most of today going from place to place to get our lives disengaged so that we can travel for a few months to a year. Yesterday, we had a gathering of us…
Our journey has begun. With the help of two of our children (one is an honorary child and Meghan’s boyfriend), we crammed almost ever last piece of our belongings into a small storage unit in Tacoma. Aram and Nick were amazing and amazed that it all fit, sort of. We passed the cleaning inspection on…
Port Gamble, Washington Port Gamble is a restored village on Hood Canal; a National Historic site that dates back to the 1850s. [ http://www.visitkitsap.com/cities.asp?ID=3] There are beautiful New England-style houses and businesses and a wide-open expanse of grass have made this the site of many fairs, celebrations, and weddings. One could shop for unique gifts…
Butchart Gardens, near Victoria, B. C., was my inspiration for these garden walks. I visited the Gardens for the first time in July 2011, It was an overcast and often rainy day, but this seemed to make the colors that much more lush and the scent that much more heavenly. The overcast seemed to make…
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