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No time, as usual. But I’ll try to dash up a few pics now that we’re in Seattle. Actually, we’ll be leaving on the train again in a few hours!
I’m at a laundromat, hopefully not straining their non-customer patience. The rest are shopping at the Sneakery.
I’m uploading a mad dash scramble of pics in no order.
I had coffee with Jan this morning and then he took me on a nice ride through some of his favorite Ballard-area sites, including the famous hill repeats park and the light-testing dark place. We had a dandy rainy time — first rain of our visit! So nice to finally visit with him after years of onlining.
Touching the tide pool.
Bike trail goes thru huge trainyard.
Public chess downtown.
After a visit to the Free Range Bikes shop. Lots of nice full-featured citybikes and rando bikes here. Jan’s parts plus Velo Orange and Ostrich bags. Mmmmm!
Signage.
Pic at Ray’s vintage dockside fish restaurant.
Cherry blossom time! — At U of W. Strolling, pondering, living the life of the mind.
Sailing with Captain Bob and Carol. Wonderful!
4 things.
Maker Haus — for 3D printing and laser-cutting, industrial sewing and bike frame building. Classes and membership access to machinery.
The Lockspot — old hangout near our condo.
The view right outside our condo window. Trains and boats all day long! And a wonderfully scented garden. 100 years old!
Henry chasing squirting critters on the beach of Whidbey Island. Rainier on another horizon.
Visiting friends on Whidbey Island. They live the simple painterly musical life in several colorful buildings in a garden setting.
The EMP music museum — Hendrix’s vision thing with a dose of Cobain.
Wonderful line of really rusty locomotives in Snowqualmie up by the Pass. Steampunk fever!
Colorful domiciles at Ann and Pat’s on Whidbey.
Neat vintage culture pic at the leather jacket exhibit at the EMP music museum. (Pop culture.)
Rocking family at the EMP.
Nice perma trailer rig house in Ballard by the docks.
The Dutch Bike shop — bikes, coffee, booze. Mmmm! And this revived and reconfigured Schwinn citybike — $1400. Seems a bargain.
Disembarking on a sunny day. We’ll be re-embarking soon on this rainy day.
