Merry Christmas 2021

Well, it's been about five months since I posted here.
Jim is slowly improving and has quite a bit more energy.
He is now on a six week immunotherapy regiment with
other appointments in between.
We have been able to take a few overnight excursions in Billy:

Lake Wenatchee with high school/college friends:

Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend with Chrissy's brother
Tom and Claudette:

Clamming at Pacific Beach State Park:

The inside remodeling projects are ALMOST done.
We actually had a Thanksgiving Family Gathering which we haven't done for about twelve years (when we went cruising).

We are now the "old timers"!

We are decorated for Christmas, gifts are wrapped, and cookies are made.

This year we get to celebrate IN PERSON with the kids. All are vaccinated........
We cut down a Douglas Fir that was a volunteer in the back yard. We have watched it grow for several years. It's our "Charlie Brown" Tree:)

Home Sweet Home
Nice to be settled back in our house, but we sure do miss
all of our cruising friends.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS!

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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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