Roadtrip-Pacific Northwest

[shawhighlander]

Thoroughly enjoyed these pics! Your family is so well dressed...quite the grand display of kilts. Thanks for the tour!
Eoín

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

I've been driving I5 for 37yrs. I stop in Weed EVERY TIME for fuel, a snack or a smoke. It's tradition!

That big cinder cone mountain next to Mt Shasta is called Black Butte.

Well, we'll just have to stop on our way back home!

We got our photos loaded after all (we're back in Portland now and will be leaving very early tomorrow morning to try to make the run all the way back to San Jose), so maybe I'll do a bit tonight...


Where were we, anyway?

Ah, yes, the ferry to Victoria. Tea at the Empress. The Royal B.C. Museum, with docent Steve Ashton. A visit to Freedom Kilts. An amazing dinner and pool party with Macman and his gracious wife. Nursing a hangover and going to Butchart Gardens (these ones aren't loaded yet though).

I may have mentioned that we aren't big travelers. We've never been on a ferry, let alone the huge ones that travel between the mainland and Vancouver Island in BC. So, this was exciting for us!



Waiting in line for the ferry (luckily, we did have a reservation, since it was right before BC DAY and apparently the waits can be from 1.5 to 6 hours!)





One of the ferries, taken from the deck as we passed. We were on the Spirit of Vancouver Island. This one is the Spirit of BC, but I believe it's essentially the same ship.






The family on deck.







Sinbad, channeling a Golden Retriever in a car






Many tourists wanted their picture taken with us, well, with Jamie anyway. He finally got sick of the paparazzi (yeah, right!).




We enjoyed watching the ramp come down, so we could drive off the ferry.





We then drove straight to Steve and Bobbie's. Actually, we drove straight to their neighbor's house, since Jamie had written the address down wrong, but we soon got things sorted out! There, we quickly got dressed up for....





Tea at the Empress, etc, to follow soon...

Be well,

Star


More to come