Final American Adventure Post

After the Selway, we drove through Washington to Seattle, camping one
night in a mosquito infested Swamp Restoration area. In Seattle, we
hung out with my brother a lot and did the following things:

Seattle:
Tuesday aft:
Got to town in the afternoon
Pho with ben
Duck dodge, sixth place, raft up
Road up cap hill
Fell down stairs

Wed:
Bk at the greek isles special food week
Pikes place mtk, ate our way around the shops: beechers Mac and
cheese, heirloom toms, donuts, two books, feta cheese pocket
Rode bikes all the way to uw, to center for urban horticulture
Made dinner at keishas, Tom kha and green curry

Thursday:
Espresso and cap at vivace
Conservatory and seattle Asian art museum, bahn mi from seattle deli
to eat at Seattle art museum downtown
Molly and plum for dinner
Stumbling monk for a beer with ben and keisha

Friday:
Am i forgetting something we did? It seems like it.
Took robert to the Locks
Bahn mi and pho in ballard
Cleaned the car
Drove to leavenworth, slept on Side of the road

Sat:
Hiked the enchantments, steep side first
Rescue operation on the way up aasgard pass
Made it to the top of the pass for lunch
Long descent
Lots of lakes
Started misting
Hiked in in the rain and dark with head lamps
13 hr 14 min hike all told
Slept on Side of the road again

Sun:
Ben woke us early
Ate at 59er diner on the way home, got a shake
Hung out at marcs for a while
Went with ben to get groceries to make enchiladas
Cooked at marcs, but Marc sick so he went to bed

Monday:
Stumptown
Burke on campus
Bahn mi on campus
Gas works to watch planes and yogis
Fremont troll
Road around lake union
Met ben and keisha at college inn for cheap nachos and good beer
Road bikes back to marcs
Went over to bens to hang

Tuesday:
Vivace
Bahn mi
Drove away
Provisioned along the way
Camped at cape perpetua in the amphitheater site 40 (29, 40, 30)
rainforest terrain, across 101 from the beach

Wed:
Visitor center at cape perpetua for info
Found a site at tillicum state park
Made tabouli, brought it to the beach for lunch
Robert tried to make a sand ladder to climb the sand wall
Spouting horn for high tide
Drove to get crab pots
Investigated Newport public dock, heard sea lions across the bay
Went to seal rock to look at tide pools and gather mussels
Cooked mussels and pad kee mow for dinner

Thursday:
Drove to historic Newport to find sea lions, found them!
Lincoln city to crab
No action at all, just lots of tourists
Lost pot, had to fish it back, but successful
Drove back to newport historic to crab off that dock
Lots of crabs, threw back two red rock keepers, oops
Alternated checking pot and getting beer at rogue
Ate clams at rogue too, good, mussels better
Met dock family and chatted them up
Left pot overnight with three red rock to collect in the morning
Collected mussels at seal rock, bc I wanted too.
Took forever to clean and cook them, got so many we were done eating
them before we had eaten them all, worked on de bearding technique,
and slurping to not eat the left over beard
Happy to sleep

Fri:
Early morning to go check pot, two big keepers
More sea lion watching
Espresso and then dock sitting hoping for more action, nothing.
Headed back to camp to cook the catch.
Robert really enjoyed eating how fresh and home caught crabs

Rest of the trip:
Drove into California and then headed east barely through nevada,
slept at some point in meadow full of deer marauding as BEARs. Escaped
with my life just barely. Kept driving towards durango, slept in Utah
one night with good star watching and free peaceful camp place just
for us on public land. Made it to durango, hung out for a day, met
Davids new roomie, thankfully he let us sleep on his floor and off we
went. It was a marathon drive back to the woodlands. Got in at...2 or
three in the morning. Tired but safe.

Gone for 70 nights. Slept inside for 12 nights, 2 in a hotel.
What a trip!!