Seattle, Washington

We arrived home mid-afternoon yesterday to a beautiful northwest Summer day. It is great to be home again (for a little while at least). Our neighbors had us over for a shared Chinese take-out dinner on their deck. The kids -- theirs and ours -- played for a few solid hours together before we had to pry them apart to get them to bed. There's a few odd jobs we need to do around the house to get it back in order after our renters left. And some cleaning. But the place is very livable. We moved most of our gear out of the van yesterday and will tackle the trailer today. On Saturday, July 4 we head to Hawaii so we're looking at a fairly quick turnaround.