Last night I camped @ Deception Pass SP after driving from Bellingham. Started a short hike down to the water @ 3:10, sunset is 4:18 and it is foggy. I took my head lamp. View was up to the under side of the highway bridge spanning the pass. I made it back w/o turning on the headlamp. $1.00 for 6 min hot water shower b4 bed. I read a bunch more pages of Calvin and Hobbs chuckling.
During the night the white noise became color white snow fall. Snow fell from the cedar branches onto my van. Plan today is to take the ferry over to Port Townsend and go from there. I waited to let the 8:00 commuters to clear then drove off on plowed and driven off wet snow. Signs of many spin outs. High wind exacerbated the slipperiness for me. Made the ferry 1st in line of no reservations. White caps just howling. I made the ferry. The ferry greatly smoothed out the waves. Found a laundromat in town. Rain and wind. No snow on the peninsula.
I drove all the way to Port Angeles (PA). I googled brew pubs in PA finding 1 yet when I went to its site it said dead. Undaunted I enacted my fall back plan: find the mountain bike shop and ask them where they go to drink beer. They recommended the dead one that is really brewing like crazy. I walked over to it and sat at the bar. Shortly 2 guys, 1 older than me and the other a few years younger. I joined their conversation. John, the younger, is an active guy per his profile in Garmin. He told me of riding around here. He told of the Discovery Trail that is paved from PA to Sequim. Weather forecast is for no rain. I’m going to give it a go. Zags play @ 12:30 drives my ride.
Widbey Island hosts an air station for Navy fighter jets, mostly F-18s. Very noisy and infrequent, they quit for all night and had not started when I left. Price of national security and jingoism. I stayed @ a camp ground in Whitefish (I believe) that was hard against a railroad track where trains went by. AT registration I was given foam ear plugs. If Widbey did it for residents the country would go broke. Window rattlers.
Another good experience of walking into a bar by myself and connecting w/ someone.