Category: Travel

We are just hanging out in the wheelhouse.

We grossly underestimated how far our hotel was from ferry dock. we thought it was 3 miles or so and it ended up being 6+. the bad news was that kristen and I had decided to walk it… and we only had an hour.

we were so going to miss the ferry… putting the whole trip in peril. that’s right I said peril. like if we missed the ferry we were screwed.

just when I was starting to deal with the reality that we were going to miss the ferry… right when we trotted past a sign that sais… ferry 2.9 miles with 20 minutes to go… right then a car pulled over.

I said to kristen, is this lady about to save our lives? (ok, a tad melodramatic) but she totally saved the day. thank you nancy and her nasty smelling dog socks.

so now we are on the boat. a couple hours and we will be on the boat.

Nothing really to share. boring flight and a micro-layover. our flight to seattle leaves in about 1 hour.

Kristen and I are infamous "non-planners" when it comes to vacation time. Rather, we aren’t the type to make elaborate plans months in advance of a trip. And to be honest this is mostly my trait and Kristen has just learned to go along with it.

As a result, we are always amazed at how God (and His people) just seems to take care of us. We never presume this is going to happen, I just try hard to not sweat the details of a trip to leave room for God-sized stuff to happen.

That seems to be happening with our upcoming trip next week. We made the "big plan" for the trip 6 months ago or so. We knew where we were going (on a cruise) so we knew when it left and when we’d return. We also had some big black hole unknowns that we chose to not try to work out from here. We always feel as though we’re better off making plans locally for the details than we are trying to figure it out from thousands of miles away. So the details of where we would stay and what we would do before and after the cruise were/are still up in the air.

Yet bit by bit, those details are getting worked out in far cooler ways than we previously imagined. I can’t wait to share those details later.  And I’m not the only one stoked about this trip. I got this note from the captain of our boat last night:

I’m so looking forward to our trip!! Exactly 7 days from now we’ll be cruising up the westside of San Juan
Island, perhaps among a group of Orcas, on the way to our first nights
anchorage. Count it down!!

In just a week Kristen and I are off on our second big vacation of the year. This is a great vacation year for us! We’re headed off to a cruise in the San Juan Islands on the Pacific Catalyst with Bill and Mama Shan. We’re spending serious quality time with some friends from YMX.

Since no one I know really gets why we are so excited about this I thought I’d post a video.

I have a new web addiction. It’s called, mynameisbill.com. Bill describes himself as an "Interactive World Traveler." Basically, he blogs and posts videos about his travel and responds to users suggestions and comments. Once at a location, he does a little video blog and links to the unique things he’s discovered.

It’s worth checking out. www.mynameisbill.com.