Comments on: Vacation; or, We Attack the Pacific Northwest

By: davidrochester

davidrochester — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:23:17 +0000

Wow — I live here, and I haven’t done most of this stuff. I’ll have to refer back to this post for my own recreational plans!

By: dadwhowrites

dadwhowrites — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:53:07 +0000

Light sabres. Very important.
I’ve never understood how people could own large chunks of beach – the worst instance of that has got to be Land’s End in the UK at the most westward point of Cornwall.

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:31:14 +0000

Luckily that was the ferry ride with just Anthropapa and me. Otherwise we would have had some ’splainin to do.

I thought of you as I remembered another thing from our trip: making smores on a barbecue at the beach on July 4. The kids got to make their own — Grandpa got really long hot dog forks that were safe for the kids to use and worked great for marshmallows too. Your solar oven experiment was way more cool, though

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:33:13 +0000

Oh yes, this is the ONLY way to document a trip, lol! Vacations are wonderful, but they are so tiring. I loved reading this and looking at the photos.

Y for yikes…um yeah! lol. I bet the kids enjoyed the drama of it, though.

By: Henitsirk

Henitsirk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:54:01 +0000

And opposite to Oregon, where the public has pedestrian access by law to all beaches, even if they are privately owned.

I missed the day trip to Dungeness Spit, having needed to work that day. But all the beaches we saw were amazing. I’m not a big “lay out on the sand and fry” kind of person, so I didn’t mind at all that it often got chilly or if there were lots of rocks everywhere. (I thought of getting you a rock, but figured you had that region covered already!)

By: Henitsirk

Henitsirk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:50:01 +0000

I felt like I cheated a bit on I, Q, and X!

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:09:31 +0000

I enjoyed your post very much. It took me way back to the years when Jim and I lived in Bremerton and I used to get up to Port Townsend on a regular basis. The Puget Sound area truly is God’s country.

I loved Dungeness Spit and still have a rock from there.

By the way, we moved there from California, and I was shocked to learn when I did that most of the beaches in Washington are private beaches, rather than the other way around as it is CA.

By: Lisa Zahn

Lisa Zahn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:52:23 +0000

Great photos, and great format for your post. I was in suspense the whole time wondering what you’d do with “X”!

Looks like a wonderful trip.

By: Henitsirk

Henitsirk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:33:35 +0000

Only if there’s no fish in the percolator.

By: Henitsirk

Henitsirk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:33:10 +0000

Will do.

How great would it be to have two sets of grandparents near us?