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+title: "PNW Reunion Trip"
+date: 2021-10-16T12:00:00-07:00
+description: A recap of a trip I took to the Pacific Northwest with some high school friends.
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+tags: ["Travel", "Pandemic", "Friends"]
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+I'm writing this in the airport having just spend a week with a group of friends
+who mean the world to me. For the past 18 months, we have been spending our
+Monday nights on Zoom with each other. They've been an anchor of my week,
+consistently one of the highlights, and a vital community during the COVID-19
+pandemic, when I was often feeling otherwise isolated.
+
+Way back at the beginning of the pandemic, we talked about getting together when
+it wound down. Surely by August 2020, we all thought. Lol.
+
+Nearly a year later, we started planning. Amazingly, we all made it through the
+hours of calls devoted to AirBnbs and rental cars and the harrowing adventure of
+traveling during a pandemic. We stayed together in Portland, OR for a few days
+and then drive up the Olympic Peninsula to a grand old house in the forest. From
+there we hiked and kayaked. We ate together and laughed and played music. We
+finished our trip with a ferry ride to Seattle, WA.
+
+I'm so grateful for every one of these people. We've been friends for years and
+even though our lives have taken us in so many different directions, we've found
+each other again and that is so wonderful.
+
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+title: "Pacific Northwest"
+date: 2021-10-15T16:39:55-07:00
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+tags: ["Travel"]
+---
+
+## Portland
+
+Our first weekend, we stayed in Portland, OR. We rented a great three-story
+house on the north side of the city that was great for all 10 of us to hang out.
+On our one full day there, we went to Powell Books and Deschutes Brewery.
+
+On the way up, we all stopped in Olympia, WA for a break and some lunch. Some of
+us stopped for oysters along the Hood Canal too. Our final destination was a
+house in the woods outside of Port Angeles.
+
+## Freshwater Bay
+
+Our first day in Port Angeles we went kayaking on Freshwater Bay. We say river otters, sea
+otters, and a baby sea lion! Our guide shared a bunch of cool stuff about the
+kelp forests along the coast too.
+
+## Hurricane Ridge
+
+The second day we drove up to Hurricane Ridge where it was snowing. None of us
+was really expecting such a dramatic change in weather. The snow was beuatiful,
+but we were all a bit unprepared.
+
+## Hoh Rainforest
+
+The next day, we took a long drive around the Olympic Peninsula to visit the Hoh
+Rainforest. We hiked through the Hall of Mosses, and along the Hoh River for a
+while. We stopped along the riverbank to skip stones before heading back to our
+cars. On the way back to Port Angeles, we took a short detour to Rialto Beach, a
+rocky windswept beach covered in seafoam and driftwood. It was overcast and a
+little foggy but beautiful.
+
+## Lake Crescent
+
+The last full day of our time in Port Angeles, we took a short trip to Lake
+Crescent and nearby Marymere Falls. It was a short hike up to the falls. A
+little rainy but nothing we couldn't handle.