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Driving the motorhome across the Astoria-Megler bridge to Washington is always interesting
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Ocean Shores WA is an old-style beach town
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You can drive on the beach, and people fly kites into the ever-present clouds
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There are several beach ride concessions set up on the sand
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This car was being used to stablize a flag pole (see the rear) outside a kitch shop
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Ocean Shores isn't fully developed, so some of the original residents still hang out
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We parked our rig (the bluish one) next to Sara & Jerry Barton's (the brownish one)
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Sara, Jerry and Macy out for a morning stroll
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Now we're in Sequim WA, where the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe have an attractive presence along the main road
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Lots of totem poles adorn their properties
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One of our favorite places to chow down in Sequim
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Getting ready to cross into Canada, a preview of the traveling exhibit at the Victoria Museum
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In these parts, seaplanes make scheduled runs to more remote places
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This guy's handled these lines many times before
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Float houses are popular and colorful in Victoria
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We liked the looks of the water taxis
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A new art museum is just opening next to the ferry dock
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The British Columbia Parliament Building is very impressive . . .
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Victoria was declared to be the BC capital long before Vancouver became the principal city
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This impressive Redwood Tree was planted in 1863, before the Parliament Building was built
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The Netherlands Carillon outside the Victoria Museum was donated and built in 1967 for Canada's centennial
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The museum has several exhibit halls, all impressive
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The wildlife displays were particularly realistic
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Hearing aids have thankfully improved a lot in the last hundred years . . .
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Fortunately, so have the "conveniences" . . . although this old one is argueably more attractive
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The displays of city life from past times were very interesting
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You could actually smell the fish at this fish cleaning station
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The canning of fish around here became popular in the 1860s after somebody invented the can opener
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Intricate native baskets show incredible workmanship
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Displays of First Nations artifacts are always fascinating
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A most impressive totem hall. Some of these are several hundred years old
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Outdoors, flowers seemed to be everywhere
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Thunderbird Park was established in 1967, when this traditional meeting house and totem were built
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Everybody seems to have "duck" tours these days. This "duck" thinks it's a Hippo
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The Empress Hotel is famed for their traditional High Tea every afternoon
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Outside the Empress, a statue of Emily Carr, beloved local artist, with her sketch pad, monkey and dog
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Lots of great landscaping in the harbour area
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Now that's a yacht . . . .
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Back in Sequim, the small but nice Museum and Arts Center
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What's left of the locally-famous mastodon skeleton
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The museum also has one piece of Dale Chihuly glass . . . always nice to see
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There are a few of these around the country, and we like the food . . .
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Jimmy was no Johnny Come Lately . . .
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Now we're in Longbranch where Jan and Declan are headed for the beach looking for "stuff"
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Declan found a crab . . .
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Joanna met a new friend
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The Four Js - Joanna, Judy, John and Jan
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Judy had a birthday, and niece Lauren brought some flowers
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Jan & Denny have a volunteer huckleberry farm along their driveway. Pies. Yumm . . .
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There are always interesting things to see when you live on the water
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Photo Finish is about ready to shove off . . .
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We'll see them again in about 5 weeks.
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A couple of days later, Judy spotted a rainbow . . .
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Seems like a lot more snow on Mt Rainier than in prior years
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Labor Day weekend Ira & Anna came up from Portland to visit
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We took them to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma to watch the glassblowers
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Big TV screens got all of us up close without feeling the heat
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The glass works on display were amazing
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The featured display was by several Australian artists, with great imaginations
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Many of the glass works mimicked other art forms
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And many were completely unique
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Imagine the skills needed to create something this delicate from glass
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We like Native American art forms, even when interpreted in more modern materials
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Every so often, the Museum artists make something designed by a visiting kid. The Green Guy is by an 11yr old
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Simply beautiful
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The outdoor exhibits include these blown acrylic towers by Chihuly
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Is there such as thing as too much Chihuly?
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The art displayed along this outdoor walkway is worth several million dollars. The people, priceless
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Outside the Tacoma Dome, interesting palm-like artworks
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All next door to a very nice car museum
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The special exhibit was of Corvettes
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Lots of nice Corvettes
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Some were very special
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We liked the "ordinary" cars that brought back memories
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Remember the '57 Packard?
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How about a '32 Ford V8 - just $495 new
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You gotta love the Tucker
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Ira spotted that gearwheel on an old Reo - it drives the speedometer
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A '42 Cadillac Brougham - the only one known to exist
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This '23 Lincoln Touring Car was the first car across two iterations of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge - Galloping Gertie and the 2007 eastbound bridge
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Note the right-hand drive on this 1909 Hupmobile.
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The '32 Auburn was built in Indiana
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Ira and Al check out a 1927 LaSalle
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They say there are over 300 cars on display. We didn't count . . .
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A '59 T-bird, somewhat modified . . .
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Ferrambo is a 1960 Rambler station wagon with a Ferrari engine
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Even while you wonder "Why?" you gotta admit it's impressive . . .
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A real Ferrari with a Ferrari engine
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Hard to believe the Delorean is a more than 30-year-old car
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Drive this solar powered car from either cockpit, depending on where the sun is
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Along an I-5 Freeway entrance in Wilsonville OR - we like surprises like this
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Joanna with a sunflower that decided her driveway was home
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Oct 4 - and the Photo Finish is almost home. The mountain came out in their honor
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Just a few more yards . . .
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Al grabs the line and the travelers are home.
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It's Farm Tour day, and we visit a huckleberry cleaning machine.
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Jan meets a friend
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The young goats were very popular
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Bunnies! Cute little girl! Aww . . . .
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Jan proudly displays a rescued scare-crow-ess.
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This farm specialized in dahlias. Very pretty ones
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The colors are magnificent
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The shapes are spectacular
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The owner explained that the Dahlia proceeds have financed a home for a needy family in Guatemala
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The mountain at sunset is often colorful
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Jan & Denny berth their boat at the Longbranch Marina. Great location.
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Some mornings, the sun works pretty hard to break through
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Now a few hummingbird pictures
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We like the reflection . . .
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These guys need to consume 25% of their body weight every day to stay alive
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They are amazingly agile . . .
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This one almost hit the camera
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We could (and do) spend hours watching these little guys
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Don Quixote, however, can park as long as he wants
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At the art center in downtown Springfield OR, an interesting mural
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The community art center is a delight . .
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We spent quite a while identifying all the brothers in "Brothers, Oregon" by James Cloutier . . .
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We'll end on another of Springfield's murals.