The journey begins...

The early morning after the late night before was not fun but thankfully the weather cooperated and we were able to load up the car before rain started.  I wasn't so lucky when I had to run through the Black Ball Coho ferry parking lot for the immigration part of the ferry loading process. 

The ferry ride was over before we knew it - partly due to all the concentration on the Scrabble game - very serious thinking was going on. 

Our first travel day has been a day of varied weather: rain, fog, sun, hail, snow, pounding rain, sun then rain again; with a most spectacular rainbow thrown in for good measure.

Yet in spite of it all we (Mom, Jim (our Port Angeles host) and I) managed to pick just the right times to venture out first to Madison Falls, along the Elwa River;

then into Sequim to one of Jim's favourite haunts Over The Fence - a fabulous interior/exterior design and home furnishing store. But boy oh boy did the sky ever open up on our way out of the store!

Once reaching home we enjoyed a lovely dinner, prepared and shipped over to us from Victoria by our favourite Khalil (thanks Anwar); which was then followed by another couple rounds of Scrabble for Mom and Jim; and this post by me.

Here's hoping tomorrow's weather for our drive to Oregon is more sun than rain.  In other words clear sailing all the way to the coast.