The Adventure Begins!

The Adventure Begins!

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Well ~~ as the story goes! We find out that the Columbia is broke down. The Taku will arrive from Portland, where it was in dry dock for 5 months for repairs. Needless to say it was not ready for the passengers to board. The Taku is a lot smaller than the Columbia. Several passengers and vehicles  were turned away from boarding. We do find out that we can get our truck on the ferry , but the bad news is we will not have a stateroom! Now let’s do some thinking? We have been down that road before with no room! We head off to Walmart and buy some sleeping bags, and some air mattresses for the trip. We still have our name on the waiting list for a stateroom though.

The good news is that we got to look around Bellingham and Fairhaven. They had a nice little fair going on and lots of good food and music to listen too. Made the day and half go a lot faster.

As we board at 8:00 on Saturday night we find that all the rooms are all taken and our room is Deck D1 & D2, for Dumb and Dumber.(Actually on the upper deck, in the open solarium.) Next time we need to make reservations earlier in the year.

We had planned to bring our food to eat on the ferry, now we just don’t have a place to store it during the day time. Just to let you know, we did eat plenty of food on the trip though!

Meet some nice people on the ferry also. It sure did make the time more enjoyable in the evening hours. We meet up and had a couple of drinks in the Taku Lounge and plenty of stories were told.

We did get on our Inter-Island Ferry on time. We are looking forward to a nice trip to POW and the drive to Coho Chalet.

 Keep in touch for the next blog!

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