This afternoon we hopped on the 1:15pm Coupeville-Port Townsend ferry and headed to Port Townsend for a couple hours. The photo above is of the Fort Casey campground (with the helpful arrow to show you where we are). The ferry to Port Townsend is $3.20 per person one-way walk-on, and…
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Whoa. Those mussels were so fresh and so good. Sweet, buttery (well, the butter probably helped that). Here's what I did: 2 lbs live Penn Cove mussels 3 T unsalted butter 3/4 cup white wine 1 large scallion I got from the farmer's market, chopped fine 4 cloves garlic, chopped…
Comments closedThese two older men who are camped in RVs several spots over from each other keep walking right through our campsite to visit. Separately, together…it's apparently their preferred path. After about the sixth time they did it this morning, I said something to Kevin like "Dude, really? The woman with…
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For our lunch break today we decided to do a little island exploring. First we drove back up to Oak Harbor and picked up some fresh Penn Cove mussels for dinner tonight (and some salmon for dinner tomorrow night), and a few clams I'll toss in with the mussels for…
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This evening we drove into Coupeville and Oak Harbor to explore a bit. We stopped at Seabolt's Smoke House intending to get some Penn Cove mussels and maybe some other stuff for dinner tonight, but they were out and they get deliveries on Tuesday…which reminded me…don't buy fish on Mondays.…
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We hopped on the ferry this morning (with our truck, our Airstream, and our Hobie) and headed for Whidbey Island. It was fairly effortless, actually. We showed up about 5 minutes before the ferry arrived (if that) and got right on it. Arrived at the Clinton ferry terminal and headed…
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It started raining a bit tonight, and during a commercial break from The Bachelorette season finale (oops did I just admit that publicly? crap!) we went outside with the tripod and snapped this photo of our Lake Pleasant setup. Five items. Four solar tiki torches, and the doormat you can't…
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See? This place has rules too, but they remind you nicely about them after you're already here when you turn on your television. This is the park channel, I believe. I wonder what counts as an item. I think we broke this rule. Four solar tiki torches, the Traeger and…
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Today we went for a little late morning kayaking excursion with Tiffani and Deke. We took our Hobie Tandem Island in tandem kayak mode (no mast, sail, or outriggers) and brought up our inflatable tandem for them to try out. We took it all down to the Sammamish Slough and…
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Today Tiffani and Deke took us to get lunch at a nearby BBQ place called Carolina Smoke here in Bothell (good stuff) before we headed over to 192 Brewing Co. in Kenmore to check their craft beer on tap. 192 Brewing is right next to the Burke Gilman Trail and has a…
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