Mini Cruiser Reunion........

.....with s/v Kanga and s/v Moshulu. So much fun. Lifted our spirits. Jim and Jeanne (Kanga) drove up from their home in Livermore, CA in their new (very impressive) car and Gerry (Moshulu) drove up in his newly renovated camper van from his awesome house near Mt. Rainier. All of us have sold our boats.

They spent one night at our house on Bainbridge Island where we did a lot of reminiscing, story telling, and laughing. So much fun I never took any pictures 😐 We then went to Gerry's. He lives in community with a shared runway. He has a beautiful airplane in a hanger on his property and can taxi right to the runway.

Jim's immunotherapy treatments continue. It has been a year since his official diagnosis and he is slowly improving. There have been a few hiccups but overall the results continue to be positive. Treatments will now be six weeks apart so we are hoping to do a few longer trips in "Billy".

Here are some photos of Gerry's house:

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Two Fall Road Trips 2023

The first trip was doing the Selkirk Loop. We headed first to eastern Washington, then northern Idaho, then British Columbia. We highly recommend. Crossing the Columbia Priest Lake, Idaho The FREE ferry across Kootenay Lake We headed to Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. It was beautiful, nice hikes, good...

North to Southeast Alaska

Our old friend, Roger, invited us to join him (as crew) on his first leg home from Sitka to Seattle. We did the first leg (and most scenic) from Sitka to Petersburg. He has been heading north on a boat from the Seattle area every summer since he was a little kid so he knows the area well. We flew into Sitka (arriving at 3PM), got a taxi to the harbor, jumped into the skiff, headed out to the boat, and we were on our way to Kalinin Bay on Kruzof Island for the night. (Jim's hat says "Where's the Fish") The next morning we headed north and into the Pacific along the Khaz Peninsula, inside Klokachef Island, up around Khaz head and then various anchorages around Baranof Island, Admiralty Island and Kupreanof Island. The weather wasn't the greatest, but we did have some sunny days, mostly calm waters, lots of wildlife and good fishing and beautiful scenery:

North to Vancouver Island..........

........this time on our van aboard the Coho Ferry to Victoria. It was a really fun week visiting old cruising friends and for Jim to see old haunts from his time living in Victoria (many years ago). The Coho ferry leaves Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula and arrives in downtown Victoria in one and a half hours: We drove up the west side of Vancouver Island then cut across to a wonderful Provincial C ampground on Gordon Bay on a beautiful lake. The Provincial Campgrounds are big and very well maintained. From Gordon Bay Campground we headed to Nanaimo to hook up with Bob and Gisele Coffey (s/v Relax) where we spent the night. We did a lot of catching up, took a couple of walks around the ponds surrounding their neighborhood and then headed up to another BIG and Beautiful Provincial Park:Rathtrevor Provincial Park about one hour north of Nanaimo. We spent two nights "buddy vanning". . From there we drove (along with Coffeys) down to Shawnigan Lake to visit Ian and Diane (...

S/V Loomba-Loomba

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