Seattle, Victoria, and the Pacific NorthWest
A little extra vacation time can lead to amazing things! Clay had some "use-it-or-lose-it" vacation time and unfortunately, Tracy did not. What began as a father-son trip morphed into our first "family" vacation in over 20 years. We've had many vacations, but it had been 20 years or more since "just the 4 of us" went anywhere together. After much discussion, we settled on the Pacific Northwest for the first 10 days of October. Clay and Emily missed Tracy and the girls terribly, but David and I enjoyed having them "to ourselves". Clay went out a couple of days early and got some extra biking time in. He kept sending us teasing photos of things he had discovered before our arrival. We met Clay at our great Airbnb in Ballard. It had recently been remodeled in a Midcentury Modern style so we were delighted. That night Clay introduced us to one of the breweries he had discovered. The food and beer were great, especially the c...