Before Leaving Puget Sound

    

 

 

A few shots from the days proceeding the journey...

 

My mail drop...

 

Quaker Oats in the morning...

 

My short commute to the lab... and the associate I called "Vlad"...

 

 

My last Saturday morning at Camp Hypervisor, on the Microsoft campus...

 

     

 

 

On the southern edge of the campus facing downtown Bellevue and the more distant Seattle, with the Olympic Mountains in the background...

 

In Seattle... the Concord is parked at the Boeing Museum Of Flight... and the Starbucks headquarters...

 

Mountain Rainier in the late afternoon and in the early morning light next morning, as seen from Camping World in Tacoma... or Fife, to be exact...

 

 

Just across the I-5 from Camping World sits The Warthog... a barbecue joint that came to be one of my favorites...

       

 

     

 

 

From the Warthog, looking back across I-5 toward Camping World... the massive cranes of the Tacoma shipyards can be seen...

 

Bigfoot Java... another of my favorites...

 

The oft visited Safeway just down the way from the campus...

 

 

Another Microsoft contract concluded...

 

       

 

 

 

Downtown Redmond on my way to dinner at Outen Manor in Sammamish...

 

 

Stately Outen Manor... a last supper with John, Jeannie, and Baby Josie...

 

       

 

 

 

Jeannie sent me off with a fine chicken pie for my trip...

 

 

A last visit to Mamasan... Sayonara, Mayumi-san...