Further westwards

***Miles travelled today: 100

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: Still in Washington

So having reached the West Coast on Friday, one would have thought that we could not travel any further westwards...well, today we did. We have travelled the length of Fidalgo and Whidby Islands and caught a ferry from Keystone across to Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. Early this morning we travelled across Deception Pass where you could look across to the San Juan Islands and thankfully the sky was blue today!!! When we arrived at the ferry terminal at 1pm, we need to wait until the 3pm crossing so did some interesting exploring along the beach which was absolutely covered in driftwood...if we lived in this area, I would love to make art pieces out of driftwood.

So we actually got to do a trip on a boat today as we needed to get to the Peninsula.

I can't quite believe that two weeks tonight we'll be flying back to Heathrow, having been travelling now for ten weeks. It seems apt that on the eve of my birthday I've spent some time considering the journey, the symbolism and what it has meant both for me individually, as well as together with Jay. As people are aware, the main reason for taking out time to travel this year was due to the fact we are both turning 40yrs...what we have decided is that we don't want to wait until the next decade birthday to do another journey...

We are spending the next 3 nights at a town called Port Angeles where we are in a lovely hotel and our balcony overlooks the Straights of Juan de Fuca (whoever he is, no seriously - he was the explorer who had these islands named after him and this mass of water is what separates the mainland from the Pacific Ocean. Did Jay say something about me having a mindful of trivia-all things American?)

So tomorrow, we are off to explore the Olympic National Park and Jay has given up looking for moose.

Sus- your sticker needs to go on a place called Port Angeles, on a little piece of land off Seattle.