PNW/Cascadia vacation report
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Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
Gresham, the big greasy.
Nice
We are heading to Oregon in a couple of weeks alone with the entire planet apparentlyto try and watch the eclipse and spend a few more days there. I hope it cools off, Portland is supposed to be 106 tomorrow.
Bellingham is on the list of places to move to so we need to spend a week up there. Preferable when the weather is supposed to suck like Jan/Feb to make sure we know what we are getting into. The weather this time of year is usually pretty nice
They have been saying there will be 1,000,000 inbound visitors to the region for the eclipse. 1 million people & their cars on the roads; can't see that being fun. If you can leave early and take off late, it'll be worthwhile.
It's dry as a bone and the fire risk is really high; it's already fire season and it's been useasonably dry. Hospitals are going to be on alert status expecting a whole lot of chaos for the eclipse.
Anywho, if any of ya'll have time to kill 'round here, hit me up.
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sunvalleylaw
Yep.
A few more pics now that I am home. These are of the family camp we go to. This place (the center where our group attends camp) is on the site of an old logging town which died when the mill burned before in the 1880's sometime. Some of the old homes and structures are used for housing, and there is some newer housing also. It is a gathering of families each year that have come for years and years. As I said, originally through a YMCA but now through our own group. I added some notes to the above pics too now that I am at a computer and not on a phone in the car. As I said, it is hard to explain, and I am sure it sounds dorky. But it is a great multi-generational, cross denominational (no denomination or even faith required) experience of a lot of different folks who would probably not get together otherwise out in the world other than this extended family reunion type connection.
Um, yeah. Looking good. Staying up till after midnight drinking beer will do that to you after a while. At least I am sporting my Premier Guitar shirt. This is a selfie on my way in the water for early morning "Polar Bearing". Jumping in the old Mill pond that serves as a swimming and rowing lagoon. It is remarkably refreshing in some weird way. I always feel somewhat awake and ready for the day after my 7
0 plunge into the primordial ooze.
"The Brothers" of the Olympic Mountains above the grounds with the play facilities, and pavilion with ping pong and foos ball. Lots of sports ladders throughout the week. Volleyball, tennis, hoop shoot, horseshoes, corn hole, various board games, etc. And lots of music.
The old bridge at the entrance to the grounds.
On the way out the back door of "Firs", the 1925 structure on pier and post, on the way to polar bear. Pro safety tip, check your shoes before putting them on. No rattlers, but you might step on a banana slug.
Seabeck Bay from Salmon Bake beach.
The canopy in what I consider to be the forests of Endor. I love looking up at the old firs, cedar, Madronas and etc.
The lagoon at sunset.
More sunset/twilight.
Um, yeah. Looking good. Staying up till after midnight drinking beer will do that to you after a while. At least I am sporting my Premier Guitar shirt. This is a selfie on my way in the water for early morning "Polar Bearing". Jumping in the old Mill pond that serves as a swimming and rowing lagoon. It is remarkably refreshing in some weird way. I always feel somewhat awake and ready for the day after my 7
0 plunge into the primordial ooze. "The Brothers" of the Olympic Mountains above the grounds with the play facilities, and pavilion with ping pong and foos ball. Lots of sports ladders throughout the week. Volleyball, tennis, hoop shoot, horseshoes, corn hole, various board games, etc. And lots of music.
The old bridge at the entrance to the grounds.
On the way out the back door of "Firs", the 1925 structure on pier and post, on the way to polar bear. Pro safety tip, check your shoes before putting them on. No rattlers, but you might step on a banana slug.
Seabeck Bay from Salmon Bake beach.
The canopy in what I consider to be the forests of Endor. I love looking up at the old firs, cedar, Madronas and etc.
The lagoon at sunset.
More sunset/twilight.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Some of the kids on the last day. My kids are the three on the left. The others are kids of friends of mine from growing up. That couple in the back are both in their 90's and love camp each year.
Songs are sung after every meal. Meals are served family style around a table where you join others who you may know well or not. These kids are mostly Thompson's (my last name) being led by my sister-in-law singing Swiss Boy went Yodeling.
The attached file that won't embed is a pano of the forest where I went mountain biking later.
Songs are sung after every meal. Meals are served family style around a table where you join others who you may know well or not. These kids are mostly Thompson's (my last name) being led by my sister-in-law singing Swiss Boy went Yodeling.
The attached file that won't embed is a pano of the forest where I went mountain biking later.
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sunvalleylaw
Yep.
The first day of vacation started like this. I am the guy in the light blue shirt on the paddle board you see in the first clip. It was a group of young guys, (20 somethings I think) playing on a Tolleycraft motoring around Gig Harbor. I will let others with more talent than I possess judge how good they are, but it was pretty darned fun to pull up to town, hop on a paddleboard, have a beer on a boat with an old friend, and then follow a band of young people actually playing instruments on a boat in the harbor. 
I asked woman on the boat to email me a link to her video, and she did!
I asked woman on the boat to email me a link to her video, and she did!
