Our work completed, for now, we departed Missoula October 3rd, heading west on I-90, to Spokane, where we had new house batteries waiting for us at Camping World (Deka AGM 105aH) as well as an appointment with a Dodge dealer there to look into two recalls on our rig. Those things attended to, we carried on under darkening skies and then rain and then more rain until we rounded Seattle and Tacoma and headed up the peninsula to Poulsbo.
Waiting for us in charming Poulsbo were Patti B. and her husband Ed, residents of the area for many years. Vicki and Patti were good friends at Nova high school in the 60s, and had not seen each other since 1970 in Chicago. We spent a couple days, the girls reminiscing and catching up, Ed and I comparing notes on mutual favorites of our generation, old flicks, the Pythons, SNL, the Coen Bros, and much more. Sympaticos. We visited a variety of sites on the peninsula on driving tours and learned a good bit about the area...which we had visited briefly years ago, but never fully appreciated. A beautiful place, within sight of Seattle, but quite rural and coastal.
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| Patti and Vicki |
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At Poulsbo, a place we had never heard of before, but which we will not forget;
a setting and culture that reminded us more of BC and Alaska than anywhere
else |
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| Main street, Poulsbo |
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Vicki and Patti on a hike in the rain forest on Bainbridge
Island |
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| Rain forest scene |
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| In the Bainbridge local museum, an entire room devoted to book arts |
