We stopped in Friday Harbor for a few days to get the boat ready for a week offshore and watch for a good weather window for the trip south to San Francisco. It felt great to be in a place we know so well with time to wander.
Friday Harbor has it all: a brewery with cute fox merch, a small bookstore with an impressive kids’s section, a hardware store with free popcorn, a grocery store with a chocolate bar aisle, a farmers’ market with fresh eggs, a classy marina laundry facility with tap-to-pay machines.
On Saturday, our dear friend and frequent lifesaver, Brittnie, arrived with her girls for the day. It was a total joy to just stroll around the town holding hands with them one more time, looking for Chocolate Frogs, and impressing the locals with Esme’s old-school rock and roll aura. It also gave Steve time to knock off some to-do list items like installing straps in the galley to help with food prep in big seas.
At the end of the day, we all waited in the long Labor Day weekend ferry line until it was time to board, then the four of us ran back to the dock to wave and wave until we couldn’t see Minha’s pink dress anymore.
On Sunday evening, Steve’s coworker and friend, Cameron, will arrive by seaplane to join for the trip south. So far, we’ve been retracing familiar routes. Now it’s time to head out the Strait of Juan de Fuca and see something new.
