I used to drive several times a month Woodinville to Bremerton.

Rush hour affects ferry's too.

Driving in rush hour was faster than waiting for the ferry. We rarely took the Seattle to Bremerton route. But, depending on timing, the Bremerton to Seattle made sense sometimes. Especially since driving required a toll for the bridge.

The ferry system make more sense going to south Whidbey.

There's nothing like the ride to Vashon, Orcas Island, or Victoria on a nice day.

Plus, I used to commute from Vashon Island to college three times a week and it was cheaper back then, but worth it to work/live on Vashon and see the Orcas swim by.

Absolutely worth it. Just time things appropriately and level expectations. The view and experience is totally worth it in my book

Unfortunately the influx of people here in the last 5+ years have put a heavy strain on the ferry system. It’s unfortunate that ferry tourism is a thing now, because so many people rely on ferries as part of their commute.

Sorry, Sasquatch is a NorCal thing. Centered on Willow Creek, CA. You all need to step off our beast yo :)

The Yakima Valley is the perfect territory for hops. Which means its also the perfect territory for growing weed. Yet the local political establishment has prevented any legal pot grows in the valley. It's almost funny watching TPTB, who have been whores for agriculture their whole lives, trying to justify not allowing pot growing.

Motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians are first on first off.

People won’t be dressing up for an event like that. You’ll be fine in jeans and a sweatshirt or jeans and a button down. The PNW doesn’t dress up for much. Canlis (nice restaurant) is probably the only place you’ll find with a real dress code that is adhered to

Considering they carry millions of riders and thousands of cars across a body of water they’d otherwise have to drive around, yes, I think so.

Can you imagine I-5 traffic through Tacoma if everyone going to the OP had to bottleneck there as well

The author conveniently left out just how much groups like the Freedom Foundation (anti-labor hate group) do indeed harass public employees...constant mailings and anti-labor propaganda that have nothing to do with government transparency..."transparency" gets weaponized by these folks to justify what for them is seldom transparent.

Sunny today.☀️

From your math, I would say it really all depends on how you feel that day. Either choice is good.

My computer desktop wallpaper is this satellite image of the PNW centered on Washington and going up into BC. The Great Columbia Plain, or Plateau (even though it is surrounded by mountains) of Eastern WA is striking. Can clearly see how this flatter, more arid region extends into the Okanagan region in BC, with Kelowna and all.

And how most of BC is not like the Columbia Plateau. Besides the Okanagan region there are pockets that look somewhat similar in the BC Interior, up the Fraser Canyon, Lillooet area, the Chilcotin plateaus, but mostly that region is more rugged and constrained in valleys.

Other things I like about this image—BC's Coast Mountains are dense and right up against the ocean, leaving very little land similar to Western WA, except Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Though there's nothing in WA quite like the lower Fraser River and delta, which dominate the Lower Mainland. One could argue that the lower Columbia River is similar, and it is in some ways, but also different in a bunch of ways.

I also like how on this image you can see the network of large flood channels in eastern WA where the Missoula Flood waters rampaged, making lots of coulees and the Channeled Scablands. Also how clear the Willamette Valley in OR is, and the darker greens of Olympic National Park, compared to the patchy logging lands around it. Also how the Columbia River doesn't take the straighter path through the Columbia Plateau but skirts around the northern and western edges, going north and west of Banks Lake / Grand Coulee and Moses Lake, by Lake Chelan and south along the very edge of the Cascades. I think long long ago flood basalt lava filled the region and forced the Columbia to "go around" as best it could, making it take a rather circuitous and twisty route.

How different it would be if the US and UK had agreed to make the Columbia the border!

All that said, when my wife and I moved to Washington from the eastern US about 25 years ago one of the first longer road trips we took was up through BC to the Canadian Rockies, and we were very surprised by how arid and epic the landscapes of south-central BC are. The grandeur and also the dryness of the Fraser Canyon up near Lillooet really surprised us. And driving from Lillooet to Vancouver felt sorta like your description of I-90 in WA. The landscape went from dry arid steppe-like semi-desert shurbland to dry forests similar to the eastern slope of the Cascades in WA, to the super lush areas around Pemberton and southwards. Lots of geographic diversity up in BC too. And fjords galore! Not too many of those in the US outside of Alaska. More recently I've been learning a little about the far north of BC and things like Level Mountain, a vast volcanic complex with "unusual" landscapes.

edit: a coupel tpyos

Get organized- seek labor representation like Teamsters, AFSCME, etc. You have rights and Labor is your advocate in claiming those rights.

South Africa. Colorado and Cali have wide ranges of diversity.

Naw, those are larches, OP's just a mite confused on which special time of year we're rolling into.

Ohhh cool when is harvest? I want to experience that.

I’m from Amarillo and when I try to describe it to people. I tell them take Spokane and drop it an hour west around Ritzville and you have Amarillo.

Go drive mountain loop highway in the summer time. You can go from either the granite falls side or darrington side. I do this drive at least once a year when it opens fully in the summer. There are plenty of pull of spots to go sit by the river or go free camping. That place is my therapy.

Thanks for the link

I ran into an issue where my employer tried to use my vacation time in lieu of FMLA. I spoke with ESD, then emailed my bosses and explained that what they’d done was illegal & they must correct it. They still tried to act like it was my fault, but ultimately they corrected it because they realized they broke the law.

From there, I emailed them again explaining that I’d underestimated the amount of time my FMLA leave would require and that to simplify everything for everyone I would no longer be working any hours during my leave and that I would use 40 of FMLA time, 0 work hours, 0 vacation hours. Since they were notified, there’s nothing they can do.

I love the way it scents the air during harvest!

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I looked up the event. You could always call them too.

But I think maxi dress for your wife is a good call.

For you, khakis with a button up or jeans with a jacket.

It doesn’t feel like a formal event but also doesn’t feel super casual.

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