We spent the weekend in Olympia again testing the limits of in-law hospitality. We haven't been thrown out yet, but they have to be getting close. Today we drove north along the Hood Canal and on into Port Townsend. The town has an interesting history. In the 1880's Port Townsend was a busy shipping port poised to become the primary port of the northwest. In the late 1880's the town underwent a downtown building spree resulting in a Victorian business district about the size of Seattle at the time. A rail terminal was coming to town sealing its dominance in area shipping. In the 1890's the US was in a depression, the rail line stopped at Seattle, and the rest is history. The result is a small town with a good-sized downtown of large, underutilized Victorian buildings.
The town has reinvented itself as a tourist draw with its boutiques, galleries, restaurants, coffee shops, and a variety of summer events. Coming in on a Sunday afternoon, the town was packed. I'm hoping things thin out to a level more to my liking during the week.
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Tomorrow we start our search for a place in the area for next summer.
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