vacation

It occurs to me, slowly, over the months... that while our boat will be ready to go North by early June, it might be nice some summer time to just find someone in the Sound area with an Ericson or Olson that might want to spend a couple weeks or so cruising the Columbia River, and trade boats...

This Friday or Saturday we're headed out of Seattle for the San Juans and Gulf Islands, for two weeks. We plan to stop at the famous places (Roche Harbor, Friday Harbor, Sucia Islands, Prevost Harbor on Stuart Island, Sidney BC, Bedwell Harbor), and hopefully a few isolated spots. We'll watch...

This summer we find ourselves boatless for the first time in 20 years. Which leaves us with a vexing problem - what do we do for a vacation? When we owned a boat the answer was clear - go cruising! But now that we no longer have that imperative need to amortize our roughly $5000 a year...