The Venue For the 3rd year the races were organized by Tacoma Rowing and for the 2nd year the race was held in downtown Tacoma at the University YMCA Student Center. Well, I think it’s downtown. Big open space and lot’s of warm-up ergs. My first race was at 9:10am. Arlene’s was at 11:54am. Both…
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2025-26 USATF Cross Country Championships
First On Saturday we checked out of the AirBnB, picked up coffee one more time at the PDX Coffee Club, then drove up to the Linfield College satellite campus where there was parking and a shuttle to the Glendoveer Golf Course for the races. We walked the 1.4 miles to the golf course rather than…
A Quick Trip to Portland
We drove from Bainbridge Island down to Portland on Wednesday afternoon/evening pretty much directly to our AirBnB. The purpose is to go the the 2025-26 USATF Cross Country Championships tomorrow (Saturday) where some of the fastest runners will compete on golf course. The weather is supposed to be horrible. We’ve discovered a nice coffee place…
The Day We Started the Trip Home
Packing We have a set of cardboard boxes each of which fits in a specific place in the car. We packed up all of our boxes. Our cooler goes near the rear. This packing was a bit different thought because we were planning on taking our suitcase, one of the coolers, both of our computer…
Shrine of St. Thérèse and Echo Cove
The Shrine On Monday (7/28) we decided on having a quiet day and just drive up the coast as far as possible which isn’t very far. (When driving off of the ferry we’d seen a sign that said “End of Road, 24 miles.”) Arlene did some research and found a couple of things to look…
The West Glacier Trail
Sunday Morning Our plan was to start early and row on the rowing machine, then find coffee and go to Fake Cedars in Juneau. We were a little later than planned leaving the AirBnB and then struggled to find an open coffee place. Once we finally found coffee we were certain to arrive late for…
Another Mine and Deckhand Dave’s
Looking For Coffee In Juneau We began Saturday (7/26) by looking for coffee in Juneau. Arlene had picked out a place called Spearfish Coffee that seemed to be closed. We stopped by the same places several other times and it seemed to always be closed. But we also walked around Juneau for a while before…
First Full Day in Juneau
Since we got in so late we spent the first half of the day unpacking and re-organizing after 3 days of living out of the suitcase. In those 3 days we had been unable to refreeze the ice in the cooler so we were a little worried about the milk and eggs, but they were…
Catching Up
Saturday (7/19) (Anchorage) Coffee at Snow City Cafe. While we sipped our coffe we rented bikes a couple of block from the Anchorage Coastal trail. The bikes had flat platforms for pedals and I had to request one with a water bottle cage. The pricing was $20 for the first hour and $5 for each…
Thursday and Friday
Whittier On Thursday we went to Whittier. There is only one road from Anchorage to Whittier and it involves a single lane tunnel that runs under Maynard Mountain and is 2.5 miles long. The single lane contains a set of railtracks as well and, in fact, from when the tunnel was constructed in the early…