Hello yet again from Sumner, WA<\/p>\n
Drafted Sunday evening \u2013 April 4, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (Fourth post of this travelogue).\u00a0 Posted Monday evening.<\/p>\n
This past week we have basically been slugs.\u00a0 This was my \u201cin-between week\u201d and we had no real schedule. We have been to Seattle several times and have done quite a bit of the tourist things in the past.\u00a0 We had talked about going to a crab pot dinner at the water front in Seattle and maybe going to the Boeing Museum, but both of those would involve fighting the terrible Seattle traffic and trying to find a place to park at the sea food restaurant.\u00a0 We have done both in the past.<\/p>\n
On Monday we drove to Duvall and had a great Mexican food Dinner.\u00a0 We wrote about this place in this post<\/a>.\u00a0 As noted in the previous post, Duvall is the hometown of a good friend and he loves this restaurant.\u00a0 It was a bit over 50 miles each way, but we knew the food would be great and the scenery is impressive in that area.\u00a0 Prior to driving to dinner, I took Pat the Muckleshoot Casio in Auburn and then drove to Kent to see if I could get some parts for the AC in the 56 Chevy.\u00a0 Pat did not have a good time at the casino which is pretty unusual.\u00a0 She often says that she does not mind loosing as long as she gets to play with her money.\u00a0 In this case, the machines were not friendly.<\/p>\n Wednesday we drove around the east and north sides of the Olympic Peninsula.\u00a0 We did this in 2013 (this post)<\/a>.\u00a0 We took a slightly different starting route by driving to Olympia and then up the 101 alongside the Hood Canal.\u00a0 That is a beautiful drive.\u00a0 Once we reached the north side of the peninsula, the scenery was so-so.\u00a0 In 2013 we ate at a fun little restaurant called the Blackberry Caf\u00e9.\u00a0 We decided to see if it was still in business.\u00a0 Fortunately we stopped at a rest stop and asked an attendant if he had heard of the place.\u00a0 He had and gave us instructions on how to get there.\u00a0 We probably would not have found it without the instructions. In case we ever try to find the place again I am benchmarking it here (Google Map)<\/a>.\u00a0 If you look at the map, you will see that the restaurant is so small the name does not show up.\u00a0 We even got to have some blackberry pie.\u00a0 Black berries are very prevalent in this area (almost like weeds) and the small town of Joyce, where the restaurant is, has a Blackberry Festival each year.<\/p>\n {google_map}48.136610, -123.74205{\/google_map}<\/p>\n Saturday I drove Pat to the Emerald Queen Casio in Fife.\u00a0 I then drove to Boeing to make sure that everything was ready for Monday.\u00a0 As noted, this class begins at 6:00 AM and I did not want to go in extra early for the first day.\u00a0 In addition, the public parking lot that instructors use, has been converted to a Covid testing area and we must enter the Boeing property and park in a special lot.\u00a0 I am glad that I did the \u201cdry run\u201d since there were some wrinkles in the process.<\/p>\n Pat, again, did not have a great day at the casino.\u00a0 Both of the Casinos she went to are on Native American property and we wonder if the payout is different for these properties.<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello yet again from Sumner, WA Drafted Sunday evening \u2013 April 4, 2021\u00a0\u00a0 (Fourth post of this travelogue).\u00a0 Posted Monday evening. This past week we have basically been slugs.\u00a0 This was my \u201cin-between week\u201d and we had no real schedule. … Continue reading