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PNW - Work and Wine

A work trip to Seattle with some winery concerts, harbor, and locks thrown in. Love finding new things to discover! Read more
  • Trip start
    September 20, 2024
  • Locks

    September 20, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F

    A city with so much water and so many water ways is fascinating to desert rats. Watching a boat come in and the doors open and close is fascinating. Unfortunately, we had to run to cross the top because Dawn had to get to a meeting.

    Increases the desire to go through the Panama Canal!
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  • Cliff Avrill

    September 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F

    This part of the work trip was fun. Former Seattle Seahawk player, Cliff Avrill, came to an event at the Boys and Girls Club to kick off a Project Power Youth program. Type 2 diabetes prevention is important to him and he wanted to inspire these kids to get ahead of it!

    (And Bill got an autographed hackey sack!)
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  • Scuttlebutt Brewery

    September 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    After the event in Everett, we headed to a brewery near the waterfront/harbor. We are used to flights of beer having 2 oz pours.... this one had 6 oz pours! Oh boy!

  • Port of Everett

    September 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    After lunch we walked out around the port. The beautiful blue sky and all that water was stunning. Saw a guy bring in a large fish, and lots of guys just hanging on their boats in the harbor. The giant saw blade pays tribute to the lumber work that used to go on in the area.Read more

  • Mukilteo Lighthouae

    September 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F

    We drove along an interesting twisty road through the pines to get to the Mukilteo Lighthouse. Cute little town and park and you can watch the ferries cross to the nearby islands. It was a perfect day for these views and so peaceful. We could have sat and just watched the boats go by for hours.Read more

  • Boeing Strike

    October 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F

    On our way to the winery, we passed a Boeing plant with the workers out on strike. We knew about the plant down near the airport in Tacoma, but there were tons of Boeings in some stage of building, and a small group outside with their signs.Read more

  • Trip end
    September 22, 2024