I had to wait a little bit to actually finish what I'd started here, sometimes it takes our photog awhile to clean up and send show pics due to other commitmants - any have some good pics to share finally. Since Uwe may be travelling out to Washington I'll share some pics of where I went as well, tho some are from google as I don't have the use of aircraft
My trip started in Seattle and I chose to head south on I-5 to Tacoma and from there to cross Puget Sound at " The Narrows" ( a location inbetween the state's principle landmass and the Kitsap Peninsula) via one of two large suspension bridges at that location. The first, built in the late'30s/ early '40s suffered a collapse of the the roadway portion during 1942 - The bridge was know as "Galloping Gertie, you can find video of the actual storm and failure of the bridge on youtube. The second adjoining bridge was added recently to accomodate much increased traffic. From there the highway take you to Bremerton, site of the famous Puget Sound Naval shipyard, during WWII many famous ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet fitted out or had their battle scars repaired here including the carriers Enterprise and Saratoga. For many years the USS Missouri BB63 was kept here, I toured her several times before she was sent to Pearl Harbor. Today, there are at least four mothballed carriers and a host of submarines docked. Continuing north, you travel past the Navy's Submarine base at Bangor, Washington, fleet subs sortie up the west side of the Kitsap Peninsula (Hood Canal) to the Straits of Juan de Fuca and thus out to the North Pacific from here. The U.S. Navy actually has a great presence here in Washington, in addition to these facilities there is also a Home Port in Everett, Wa. from which a battle group centered around a nuclear carrier (USS Stennis I think) is based, and a Navel Air Station at Whidbey Island. Continuing north, I crossed the northern end of Hood Canal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal on what is the world's longest saltwater floating bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal_Bridge which also suffered disaster in 1979 with the western half breaking loose and sinking during a violent windstorm.
Hood Canal is named for the Englander Hood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Hoodalso famous for having a mountain in Oregon named after him in addition to an ill-fated WWII Royal Navy Battle Cruiser. I've crossed the Canal on the bridge many times but have never been fortunate enough to see one of the SSBN's transiting the passage. On highway 104 westbound one heads inland a bit only to come out on the north coast of the Olympic Penisula near Discovery Bay, once a logging and mill town located along the right of way of the old Milwaukee Road's Pacific Extension. The roadbed is abandonded today but it can easily be seen as it follows the coast out to Pt Angeles.
Our show was at 7 cedars Casino, just a bit outside of Sequim (skwim) Wa., this a great venue for us, they have a good stage /sound/light set up with friendly helpful sound guys. They pay for our hotel and meals as well, about the only thing they didn't do ( but would happily) is limo us to the show. We had a great time playing! Somewhere between 2000 2200 folks showed up for the biggest night they've had this year - Nice to loved! We played three sets, I chose to change clothes and bass for each, I played my '77 Gibson, Epi Fenderbird and Lull.
I haven't worn all the bullets etc. in awhile, that $%&@ is heavy
As the evening went on I opted for less and lighter clothes
