Being thrifty is always a great thing, so when the choice was $1.00 for the Bus 🚌 versus $51.00 for an Uber / Lyft, it was a slam dunk decision.

The ride through beautiful LaConner was an added bonus !

Great way to travel, especially when it’s 8 hours or less.

20 minutes from boarding the train 🚆!

Being ahead $50.00 is the definition of a Great Start !

More 2 follow !!!

Everett is behind us now. Next up is the shoreline of Mukilteo – no longer a stop but we get REAL close to the water.

The tracks are within 10 feet of the water

**** Taking pics 📸 out of a moving train 🚆 is a challenge !

40 minutes to Seattle, train is running right on time ( 11:00)

30-minute stop ✋️ over at the King Street station 🚉 in Seattle is in the Books 📚 and we are back at it. The dueling stadiums 🏟 are just to the right.

Starbucks World headquarters…

Next Stop ✋️: Tacoma

Leaving the State Capitol of Olympia at 1:31 pm…

Kelso – Longview (2:40, should be 2:30)

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Day 2 of the soccer ⚽️ camp is set to take place today.

The travel highlight for Tuesday is a six hour train 🚆 ride down the coast as we close out things with two days in Portland, Oregon.

Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏

Marty Graves is one of the six people that God blessed me/ us with in our lifetime. There is no way that we could have ever accomplished the things we have without our Pic – Six of Angels.

We try our best to treat Marty to dinner 🍽 once a year as a way to show our appreciation for everything he did for us while we were on Orcas Island.

Having spent time with Julio Pascual earlier on this trip ( Florida ), it allowed us time with two of the five that remain. We lost John Culp entirely too early, but the other five are still going strong 💪!

Seven different Ferry Boat ⛴️ rides throughout the Islands 🏝, getting to meet some of the folks that Rebecca works with at the Fire Station, meeting her Puppy 🐶 and having Ronnie give me one of the blackberries that he picked was a few of the bonus perks.

Positive news from Shawn Montgomery about his upcoming Cross Country season and Lance Burnett continuing to get acknowledged for his tremendous success over the past two baseball seasons.

Tomorrow morning 🌄 we pack up and head down to the Amtrak station 🚉 for a train 🚆 ride down to Portland, Oregon.

Portland was a HUGE part of my career success, and we will catch a WNBA expansion team game during our two days. It will be fun for sure, but today was just special, sunrise 🌅 to almost sunset 🌇!

The top of Mt Baker, the one we share with our Canadian neighbors, is visible from 50 miles away !

Swinomish Lodge is the welcoming mat to Fidalgo Island 🏝 as the picture of the Twin Bridges shows just how close one is to the mainland. The other bridge is the train 🚆 trestle.

The lodge is full of Indian art and historical information.