Here I was thinking it would soon be Spring! Only a week away…
We need a good snow pack for later in summer & hasn’t been a lot of precipitation of any sort in past couple of years. My neighbor was out in shorts firing up the bbQ. & getting snowed on. A little snow won’t stop a bbq.
Did get some wind. 70 mph gusts last night, could hear it blowing up a storm outside. Cold wind from Alaska. We didn’t get much damage here but western WA had power outages, trees and lines down.
Usually the view is more like this: This is why it’s called Sunset Highway.
Thinking of heading back to NorCal soon. Would like to stay, but alas with this economy/administration, nothing is affordable anymore. I do like Spokane area, gorgeous scenery, plenty of wild spaces. Moose on the loose…
I also like being close enough to Canada. About a 2 hour drive north. Calgary is nearly due
north of here. However the winters can be long and brutal. I used to wonder if the name
“Spokane” meant Windy Potholes in native tongue. The wind is never ending. Nice in summer. Potholes also ubiquitous; freezing winters and hot summers will do it.
Also unaffordable housing here now. It is a national nightmare. Possibly when Rs are voted out at last, government will be kinder to the working class and less opulent with Billionaire Bailouts.
Spokane has some of the nicest people I have met on my travels. At the Heights where I’m staying now, on both Thanksgiving and Xmas, Tracey, the manager showed up at my door bearing a full plate of turkey dinner and pumpkin pie, mit whipped cream atop! Such unexpected treats!
As to Canada…escape would be nice. Past experience in Vancouver and Victoria,
one finds warmer weather than here. Which is why many Canadians head west. Also more expensive, of course. When I lived in Olympia, I would often motor up to Port Angeles and ferry over to Victoria where an old friend of mine lived. Grand times…
…There was that one time…I pulled into PA a bit late. Got ticket at the dock, saw the ferry still there, but: “You better run!” the ticket lady told me. I hightailed it down the dock while passengers on deck above yelled, “You better hurry!” I made it just as ferry was pulling away, jumped over the water onto the car deck just making it.
Then, there was that other time…I was seated next to a gentleman who was a journalist writing about psilocybin shrooms, Sam Silver by name. Asked if I might give him a ride to the Nanaimo ferry, which was en route back, so I said sure.
And a good thing, too; upon landing, I found car had a dead battery.
It had been foggy en route up the peninsula, probably left lights on.
But Sam had AAA so we called a service truck, got a jump and got moving. Good thing too, it was near dark by then.
………..
I wonder if I could spend the summers here and then winter in California, or possibly
New Mexico, where rent is less. I do love the area around Flagstaff AZ, but I fear it has
gentrified itself out of my price range now.
I don’t have the wanderlust that I once did, I crave a spot I can rest up, grow a garden, maybe have a 🐈⬛ cat! Being home free when one gets older is more of a trial than an escape.
