There's no ferry from Victoria to Vancouver, nor is there a ferry from Victoria to Port Townsend. They could take the ferry from Swartz Bay to Vancouver, but that turns a 4 hour drive from Victoria to Portland into a 10+ hour journey.

They might be taking the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver, not the one to Pt Townsend? If they take the latter, Poulsbo (little Norway) is a good stop.

I definitely get the personal connection to a place But man WA has a-lot of cool/fascinating and very unique places to offer. There are countless small communities and oddities out in the san Juans and Eastern Wa that are unlike anywhere in the world. Often these places are overlooked by Seattleite wetsiders that think King County is all of Wa. Some of these places that would fascinate the hell out people visiting. That being said one of my favorite places in Washington is Coles Corner lol nothing special i just have a personal connection to it since my family has had property there for over 100 years. I have explored just about every corner of this state in my 30+ years, born and raised here. I just don’t see Franklin as all that fascinating.

Pretty sure this is right off the gondola, isn’t it?

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There's something about the area that has fascinated me since I was a kid. I have very vivid memories of stumbling along the banks as a young kid(like age 4, maybe 3). I grew up fishing and swimming in the river. There was almost a second home kind of feeling to it. As I grew older and my hobbies began to get more set in stone(I'm a geologist), I began to get curious to the who, what, where, when, why and how. The research I did into the area only amplified my curiosity. There's just something about it that my mind always wanders around in. I'm not convinced that if I went to an afterlife, it wouldn't be amoung the Cedar trees along the rivers banks. Franklin's stories of being a former mining town with 1,000 people in it, now abandoned, and the stories around it in places like Ravensdale, Cumberland, Bayne, Selleck and Black Diamond are a somewhat overlooked place in King County, despite the coal production that helped with the regional growth. I'm pretty damn lucky to work with the museum in Black Diamond, and they encourage me to keep learning and growing and, most of all, sharing. There's no better joy I get then when someone has a good experience with us, be it in Franklin or in the museum or on a hike I take people on, when they tell me "I've been here 5, 10, 15, 20, 30+ years and I'm amazed this place exisits". It's a really unique and special spot I get to share with people why its so special and important. I think legendary mountaineering, kayaking, conservationist Wolf Bauer put it best when he described it as "A Ribbon of Wilderness in our Midst."

May I ask why it’s your fave? I’m always looking to wander. Is Franklin worth the trek?

That’s because he can’t see. You can’t blow glass with one eye. No depth perception. Those that work for him do get invaluable glass work exposure. It’s hard to start out in glass blowing. Very expensive to develop your style and path. Same thing in Murano. You would be an apprentice for many years. I don’t think going to look at the work denigrates the final product.

Its hilarious how ppl who wanna claim others who make less than 50k yearly don't want to work for their money are often the same people who simp for the rich, like they think making a billion a year is from lots of hard work 🤣.

Hell no.

I ride a motorcycle and don’t want filtering. It’s dangerous AF. The kind of people who want lane filtering are exactly the same jerk riders who would abuse it.

Pictures don't really do it justice. When you're up there, it feels like you could just reach out and touch the top of Rainier. It's a grand illusion!

McMenemized places fucking suck. The beer and food are shitty and sorely overpriced.
If I’d NEVER been to Seattle EVER before:
I’d do the stupid Space Needle. Not the crappy restaurant, just the suicide jumper deck.
Next, Seattle Center because I’m already there, and just spent more on a shitty elevator ride than I did on my parking garage fee.
Next, I’d go do that bullshit dead fish juggle at Pike Place market just get the lame social media pic. Then there’s that disgusting gum alley.
Next, take em down to Pier 54 to blow more $$$ on stupid tourist shit.
You can get some size XX size Twilight T-Shirts before you pig out at McDonald’s and feed the leftover French fries to seagulls before you board the Winslow ferry.

After Feb 1st

Like @livenet2723 said go to WSDR website and file a claim! I believe you will be asked eligibility questions and you can move forward. Turbo tax will probably be updating their software after Feb 1st to reflect any new changes for WA residents! But if you filed early just go to the WA website and not turbo tax!

very nice! I went up on the gondola this past summer and did some hikes in the area - so beautiful!

I hate when people from D.C. refer to themselves as Washingtonians. No. We are the Washingtonians, they are the District of Columbians.

Oh yeah also: Fer fucksake never eat at Del Taco unless you wanna spend the next three days shitting your guts out. Also the highway cops are dicks. A radar/laser detector is recommended.

I see this almost weekly and it just never gets old

You take the trail from the parking lot up to the ticket window, then you pay American dollars for a lift ticket. Hop on the gondola on a sunny day and this will be the first thing you see.

I'm trying to find out if there's programs or services or other portals through which one can get the WA state EITC without paying for Turbo Tax to file something on your behalf. I have done my taxes by myself for years otherwise. It's not a matter of putting in work or not, it's trying to get information. BE GONE TROLL.

Stunning.

You want money but don't want to do the work to get it?

Rainier never even visited North America. Cap’n Vancouver just wanted to kiss his bosses’ asses so he named everything after them. Hence, “Cape Flattery.”

Touché.

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