After a great time in Portland with our friends, we headed north toward Seattle. We spent a few days with our friends, Paul and Mary, going to Brisbane Island, Pike Market and just seeing the sights around Seattle. After a few days, we went to Bremerton to see high school friends of Donna's. We had so much fun and had a wonderful meal of salad and pizza (homemade by Paul) and fresh apple crunch (made by Shar). We talked about old times and caught up on what we've been doing for the last 40 years. Where did the time go? We are GRANDPARENTS now. It seems like yesterday we were in high school and next year we'll be celebrating our 50 year reunion. We headed to Sequim and Donna went to Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., for a few days with our friend, Barb. We had a great time there and I had Saganaki for the first time ever. It's fried goat cheese (yum)! Tom joined us later in the week and he and I went to Sooke to visit Lee and Steve for another fabulous day with fresh caught salmon for dinner and lots of veggies and other good stuff. We sure do enjoy our Canadian friends. We returned to Sequim after a week and visited the Olympic National Park, Marymere Falls. Just a note: I (Donna) climbed all the way to the falls (1 and 1/2 miles round trip - much of it very up and down). What a thrill for me! It's wonderful being able to walk without pain. Today we went to a dog show. It was so interesting seeing the different dog breeds and talking to the owners. The dogs were friendly as were the owners. Tom took lots of pictures and we petted our share of the canines. We have been staying at Elks' Lodges since we left Portland. They don't have all the amenities we're used to in our RV parks, but they are fine and always welcoming. Monday we're off to Port Townsend where we'll do some island hopping and exploring. From there, who knows?

Portland and Beyond

We've been in Portland for over a week now and Tom has had all of his medical appointments - he's fine by the way. Our friends, Mary and Paul, will be arriving on Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday, we're all heading north to what we hope is cooler country. We plan to see some sights in Seattle, i.e., the Seattle underground, the market, eat pizza at a special place that Mary read about, go to Bainbridge Island and whatever other trouble we can find. We are also planning on looking up our line dancing instructors for a visit and maybe a little line dancing refresher. After we part ways with Paul and Mary, we are headed west to the Olympic Penn to see a few more sights and also to Vancouver Island to visit friends there. We love the island and are so looking forward to being back there again. Our friend has an apartment that overlooks James Bay where the cruise ships come in - beautiful. She's on the 10th floor so we can see the ships and planes. We have other friends in Sooke and plan to visit them also. We don't know how long we'll be in Washington, but we plan to just take it as it comes. We have been having so much fun here in Portland - seeing our friends, Donna visiting her daughter, participating in the park activities, including Karaoke, eating at some of our favorite restaurants, and just relaxing. It's great that Tom isn't working while we're here, but he does have a little trouble remembering that at times. The temptation is almost too much for him to resist!!!!! Life is good for us and we feel so lucky to be living this life. We are in our 10th year now of full timing and have no plans to stop in the foreseeable future. Hope your summer is going as well as ours is.