Our round-about trip through Seattle, WA

We were so eager to tell about our long-awaited reunion with Jeff and Diana Holmes in Anacortes, WA that we jumped right over how we got there from the Olympic Peninsula. Anacotes is on Fidalgo Island. Ordinarily, three toll ferries and two bridges make it easy to access Anacortes. We arrived, however, during repair season. Since half of the choices were out of service, the bridge was our most affordable alternative. To reach the bridge, we had to drive around Puget Sound...south to Olympia, east to Tacoma and north to Seattle. Wally has never passed by an exhibit of airplanes and Boeing’s Museum of Flight in Seattle was no exception. During that afternoon, we even had the rare chance of seeing a B-17 in flight. Rides were being offered at $485 for 20 minutes! At 3:30, Interstate-5 was choked with most of the city’s 1.5 million residents as we made our way north, reminding us of why we avoid most congested areas.