A few months back, I flew into Salt Lake City to meet up with my parents for a trip through Utah's "Mighty Five" national parks. We had such a great time on that trip that my dad and I had started planning another trip in the Pacific Northwest before I had even flown back to Thailand.
Utah's Mighty Five:
Six months later, the time has come! It was a cold, dark, and drizzly afternoon in Washington State when Pinky and I took a cab down to SEATAC to pick my parents up at the airport.
We picked up a rental car and headed out of Seattle towards Port Ludlow, a quiet, scenic waterfront on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, which would be our stop for the night.
Port Ludlow, today a small town with a marina, a 9-hole golf course, and a few forested hiking trails, was originally developed as a mill town in the 19th century.
Now it is a quiet resort destination popular with retirees and weekend visitors from Seattle. It is also one of the major overnight stopovers for boaters and yachters coming out of Seattle.
After checking in at the Resort at Port Ludlow, my wife and I took a sunset walk down the chilly coast to see the Port Ludlow Totem Pole.
The Port Ludlow Totem Pole is a 40-foot monument carved by artist David Boxley of the Tsimshian Tribe in 1995.
Crafted from a 720-year-old western red cedar felled in Olympic National Park's Hoh Rainforest, the pole narrates the region’s history through symbolic figures representing the region.
We woke early the next morning. Pinky and I took another walk around the grounds, then we met up with my parents again for a longer drive to our next destination.
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