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		<title>Art in the Woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warm and sunny summer days have disappeared. So too, have all those rows of white canopies in open fields, parking lots and closed off side streets that signal an art festival is in full swing. The canopies may be gone, but festivals, though fewer, are not. They have just moved indoors.
Fall and winter are a great time for festival hopping because for one thing they get you out of the house on some less than perfect days, and second, they offer unique gift opportunities for the holidays. A favorite format ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Technicolor Season, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I concluded the first part of this entry suggesting that you check out some of our archived stories for ideas on Fall foliage day trips.  However, I want to add a few more because they are just plain interesting.
On the recent King County Farm Tour, we toured of several farms in Enumclaw and decided to find a scenic route back to Seattle.  Looking at a map, we opted to take SR 169.  However, just miles into this route we saw a sign for the Green River Gorge.  Not wanting to ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Technicolor Season, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of things signal the arrival of Fall here in Puget Sound: less traffic on the weekends, shorter wait times at the ferry terminals, lower gas prices, etc.  But nothing is as loud and clear as the wonder of Fall foliage.
We recently published a list of farm tours for harvest season.  Some of those tours continue through the end of October and just happen to coincide with foliage peaks time.  One lesser traveled route is Highway 9 from Woodinville to SR 542 (Mount Baker Hwy).  This route offers small towns, ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Day Tripping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something happened recently that underscores what we get out of day tripping.  We started this blog to share our ideas for more spontaneous travel.  Our satisfaction with this type of travel spawned from our frustration with conventional and long distance traveling.  This doesn&#8217;t mean that we limit ourselves to Puget Sound.  We have family in other parts of the country and sometimes we like to see something completely different.  However, we have found that day tripping adds a lot of joy to our lives.

Recently, I received an e-mail from a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Touring Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, a recurring theme in our day tripping is the idea of buying local. Not only is it healthy for the local economy, it instills a great sense of pride.  Whether it&#8217;s produce, products or services, you are buying directly from the people that create them.

With that said, this is an especially good time of year for locally grown produce.  Between now and the end of October, your local farmers markets will be bursting at the seams with bounties of fresh produce.  And if that&#8217;s not ...]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Summer, Hello Vacation!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;m not going to lie.  September is my favorite month for travel.  Kids are back in school.  People go back to work.  Places that were hot during the high season (no pun intended) are suddenly cheaper.  Festivals and farmers markets are still going strong through October.  In fact, you&#8217;ll now find some of the best produce of the season.
More important, though, is that now is the time to get out there.  We haven&#8217;t yet hit our rainy season and, depending on where you go,you&#8217;ll get glimpses of Fall color.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hood Canal Day Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This short three-stop tour along the Hood Canal makes for a perfect day trip to the Olympic Peninsula.  It features waterfalls, dense forests and scenic views and, except for one stop, can be done any time of year.  From the Hood Canal Bridge driving distance is approximately 70 miles round trip.  Traveling from Seattle you can take either the Bainbridge Island or Edmonds-Kingston Ferries.  If this is your first visit to Seattle or you are hosting visitors, we recommend taking the Bainbridge Island ferry as it provides the must-have photo ...]]></description>
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		<title>Red Top Mountain Lookout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t been east of the mountains lately, now is a good time to go.  Yes, it&#8217;s hotter than you know what during the summer, but as seasonal rains plague us Puget Sound Travelers, we can still find decent weather.  A place we&#8217;ve been meaning to visit for some time was Red Top Mountain Lookout in the Teanaway Ridge just east of Cle Elum.
Getting there was easy enough.  Just take I-90 to exit 84 and drive through Cle Elum.  You can optionally take the next exit bypassing the town.  However, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Port Gamble &#8211; So Close, Yet So Far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Situated at the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula is the small picturesque town of Port Gamble.  You&#8217;ve probably driven through it many times on your way to the Olympic Peninsula.  Within an hour&#8217;s drive from Port Gamble, you can find yourself in Port Townsend, on the trails in Olympic National Park and Forest, clamdigging along the saltwater beaches of Hood Canal, shopping in Poulsbo, dining on Bainbridge Island and, with a ferry ride, in downtown Seattle.  So what&#8217;s so special about this place?
Port Gamble is a small historic town located 8 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bywater Bay at Hood Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those places that, during off season, makes a great quick getaway spot for the entire family.  And by off-season, I&#8217;m referring to clam and oyster harvesting season!
You&#8217;ve probably seen this beach area when crossing the Hood Canal bridge and looking north - that small isthmus connecting Hood Head with the Olympic Peninsula.  The first few times I tried to get there was by walking the beach at Shine Tidelands State Park immediately north of the Hood Canal bridge.  Never made it that way! The secret is to go to Wolfe Property ...]]></description>
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