Flew into Seattle this morning on our way to Victoria, British Columbia.
At the moment we're waiting to roll the car onto the ferry from Anacortes, WA to Sydney, BC.
Update:This day, Saturday Aug 4, was an all travel day. We took off from IAH at 7:30am CDT, arrived at Sea-Tac about 10am PDT. That gave us four hours to get the baggage, get the rent car, drive about 100 miles up to Anacortes and make the 2pm ferry. *#@% traffic on I-5 meant that it was barely adequate. If the ferry had been backed up much more we'd have missed it and there's only the one sailing per day to Victoria. The ferry left about 30 minutes late and the crossing to Sydney on Vancouver Island, with two short stops in the small islands, took 3-1/2 hours. Final leg was about a 20-minute drive down into Victoria to the Prior House Inn B&B where we stayed. Beautiful place!
Dinner at Cafe Brio. Had a really excellent local wine that had only 160 cases produced. Can't recall the exact wine, I really need to get in the habit of writing notes, but it was from Black Widow Winery.
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Made that trip myself, back in Sept. of '90. It's beautiful this time of year. I spent nearly two weeks on the island -- traveled every piece of paved highway they had, and hiked a bit where I couldn't drive. Seven cameras and a woman in a 21' Toyota Chinook. Good times. Nearly lost the Chinook in the Pacific -- came over a rise, and the road was... gone. About a 1000' to the ocean. Left front wheel went into space before I could come to a stop on the muddy hillside -- driver's door was in space. Got the woman into the back, and I tried to back up -- Chinook began slipping sideways. I was thinking I was going to slide into the ocean for sure, but once I had slipped sideways far enough I got some traction and pulled back onto the cliff. Thrilling ride.
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