Happy Halloween!

Yesterday we said goodbye to the Gardners and their hospitality and today we began the next phase of the adventure by leaving northern Whidbey Island where we had a super month and are now headed toward Oregon. We woke up to 39 degrees and today it was about 50 for the high with a solid high overcast.

We went down state highway 20 to a place called Keystone on the southwest side of Whidbey Island. After waiting about 40 minutes for the ferry we drove the Flying (now floating) Scotsman on board for its first boat trip. The fare for the whole works was about $56 and so what if we took up a lane and a half. Actually, due to the off season, the ferry was about half full, giving us a lot of room ... and we need it!

After a 30 minute trip we were in Port Townsend, the little 1800s town we visited and talked about a couple of days ago.

We stopped right in town at the Port Townsend Marina for the night as we wanted to get the boat trip out of the way before hitting the highway for McMinnville. We'll take highway 20 to the south and avoid the Seattle area ... been there, done that. Kinda cold, dark and gloomy tonight (maybe some witches out there) so I'll get some pics tomorrow.

We'll take our time getting away from here in the morning and have settled on a place in Centralia, Washington as our next stop. This should put us into McMinnville on Friday night.

It is dark now and we're looking out the windows across the sound toward Whidbey and watching the boats ... really neat.