suzie and my camping trip in olympic national park

landed in seattle and met my oldest freind suzie with whom i had dropped out when i was 18 and travelled all around the US and canada in our volkswagen... it is like coming home.... there is like an instant connection and we are talking hugging all the time

the first day we go and have lunch with the rnowned poet gary snyder a poet of the wilderness, who lives in a 100 ace farm in california....... in the evening we go to his poetry reading....2000 people who have paid money to hear him...he dedicates the evening to ron, suzies husband who has just died of cancer and to suzie......very touching.............

next day suzie goes to hear amma...........oh well ... many emericans around for the husgging saint.

next day suzie and i pack up and are out of thehouse for our drivingholiday...we drive an hour take a ferry drive to her aunt and uncles house on whitby island, amazind place, another drive, another ferry and to the camp ground.... we have brown rice and lamb which suie has cooked in seattle and go to the tent to sleep......

boy was it cold........... i tell suzie lets leave for the beach house..i dont think i will survive another nite in the tent

anyway we first walk down to the worlds largest sandspit come back and start our drive..... its a long drive so we stop at aother by a lake which is not so cold.. meet many nice guys who help us put up the tent go out for a hot meal, and spend the nite next to the lake............ beautiful

next day we go the worlds older spruce tree 1000 years old....... and drive down the coast about 100 miles to vikys house..........so lovely to be watm... good schotch a loving brother and dearest freind what more does one want. a nite of dancing with suzie...she is such an amazing dancer combining tai chi and i dont know what else................

gud fun


having dinner at the lodge in the second place we camped...with us is a freind rob whom we met whilst driving down... he called us his two sistersand told everyone that the family has adopted all these children from different places
sunset over the lake at the lodge where we ate
suzie reclining on the tree on the trail
at the lake where we were driving through
at the camp fire tring to make tea at the campsite.boy it was freezing at nite rain but suzie got a fire going
suzie in meditation i think, or is it sleep on the beach in front of vikys house
viky , my brother putting up a kite at the beach at his house
me in front of the twin rocks at vikys seaside place
suzie working on our presentation for reed ..finally
suzies one match fire at the campgorund
putting up the tent
suzies uncle, age 81, who ives on whitby island in washington showing me the snow mountains across the honeymoon bay on his nikon telescope
on the ferry across to whitby island ... see the snow clad mountain which is mount baker
suzie and me on the ferry ....... photos are all blurred ...something seems to be wrong with my lens