Author: Van-Tramp

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Mushrooms National Park

Yep, I’ve decided to just rename the North Cascades National Park. While the Cascades are beautiful and all, it is the mushrooms that makes this place special. Even for a guy like me who doesn’t care in the slightest to put that fungus in my mouth, the shrooms turn a...

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Practicing the art of self distraction

As it turns out, there are a lot of boats in the Puget Sound area, many of which are in need of surveys (inspection). This in turn causes the surveyors to be booked many weeks out, to our dismay. So we are trying to distract ourselves from how far the...

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We made an offer on a boat

So, here we are back in Port Townsend. Back at the same exact site at Point Hudson – which we left not too long ago. Here is where it all began a few weeks ago, and now we are full circle and having looked at all the boats – plus...

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A weekend of sailboats

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday we hopped around the greater Seattle area viewing numerous sailboats for sale. By the end of the weekend we had seen eight boats, each taking about two hours of our time to talk with the broker and inspect. Add in all the driving too and from...

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Penrose Point State Park

Following out first official viewing of a sailboat we had to settle in for a few days before our next viewing in Seattle. Luckily, we didn’t have to travel far with Penrose State Park only a few miles from us. Penrose is a quiet little campground – at least this time of...

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A change of plans

We left Port Townsend for our second time in a month. Kerri, as usual, had a few pins on a map that we wanted to see, but this time the pins were of a different species than before. Normally we are off to scout, and camp, some random dirt road...

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Olympic wanderings

Kerri had been talking up a campground for a few days. She stayed once back in 2014 – just a few months before we met – and liked it. The plan was to settle into the South Beach Campground along the coast for the two final nights in our work...

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Hoh lota boondocking

Big Blue has been getting a workout this week. Not one, not two, not three, but five different locations in and around the Hoh rain forest area of Olympic National Park. It all started with getting out of town for the Labor Day weekend. To avoid the crowds we didn’t...

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Arriving in Port Townsend again

OK, so this may sound weird, but the last two weeks were all decided on this week’s reservation in Port Townsend. The dates that we could get booked at the Point Harbor Marina decided all the other; including my son’s visit and everything leading up to it. It has been...