Can you believe it? Week 20 is our final week on Guemes Island and our final week on the west coast. We begin our journey home on July 1st.

In reflection, I cant believe that we have traveled by car nearly 10,000 miles, plus by air travel to Maine and the Ferry travel in Canada, plus the day-to-day Ferry travel to and from Anacortes to Guemes Island and back again day after day after day.

Our thanks to Mark, Kelly, Rumi, Teo, Brian, Emily, Fisher, Amaya, Kris, Kerry, Sienna and Seba for not letting us feel like we were an intrusion on your lives, even if we were. And, thanks for all of the good times together these past 90 days. It’s been awesome!

This final week I played golf with Tim and Michael, two of the three guys I met at Avalon Golf Club last month. We dropped in on Kerry and Kris and the kids for a final look at Big Mama’s farm. We had Amaya spend the night with us on the west shore. Friday Sandy saw Rumi and Teo’s work from their Art Class Camp.

So, we are saying our goodbye’s to our beautiful view of Cypress Island. We say goodbye to the porpoise and baby seals, to the ducks and to the eagles. We will miss our search for the Orcas (we’ve seen two) and Sandy said she heard two from afar early this morning.

We plan to travel to Hood River this Sunday and then spend an extra day to explore the Mount Hood and  the Columbia River area. Then, we head further south to Bend, Oregon before heading to Idaho, then Utah, on into Colorado.

Next week we will try to capture the delights of that trip on this blog as we wind down the travel days. We are looking forward to seeing Craig, Nicole, Olivia, Evan, Ella, Todd, Jessica, Scarlet, Brent and Dani plus all from the West Coast as we  converge for our special 50th Anniversary SashBash in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Travel safely everyone. See you on a mountain top in Colorado.