Olympia WA

It's time to head inland to Olympia, 110 miles northeast of Cape Disappointment. Here, we make the long anticipated stop to visit our good friend and my ex-roommate, Nancy. She is ready to provide us with a driveway to park in, feed us, and show us the sights around Olympia and Tumwater. I'm very thankful for the haven to rest, restock, and (yea!) do laundry.

There's a lot to see and do in the Olympia area, and Nancy is on a mission to convince us that this is the ideal location for our retirement. She does present some pretty convincing arguments by showing us beautiful, clean locations and feeding us delicious, healthy food.

The Olympia city center/capital

and the Tumwater city center are beautiful.

Our good friend and gracious hostess - Nancy

We take in the Olympia farmers market, which is open Thursday through Sunday. It has lots of healthy, organic produce and interesting crafts.










We take a drive to see Boston Harbor and Steamboat, fingers that jut into the Puget Sound. We walk through Watershed Park, a forest in the middle of the city. Then Tom gets to break out his bike and ride to Boston Harbor to see what a bike friendly town Olympia is. To top it all off, Tom finds a place to play pickleball (and they even tell him about another place with more competitive play)!!!

However, it's not all fun and games. Tom does do some heavy lifting, moving lumber out of the garage and rock on the driveway to help Nancy with home renovation chores. All this while Wendy spends the day shopping to restock supplies (yup hard work).

Sadly, we do have to move on to make our Banff and Yellowstone reservations. However, we do so without our faithful companion, Tank. Tank has been conscripted into Nancy boot camp. We have warned Nancy that Tank can be quite a handful, but she is determined to have him stay for a longer visit and give us a chance to be wild and crazy without our dog in tow. We leave hoping these two crazy kids play nice together, and that they are both survive until we meet again in Montana...

Thank you, Nancy for being a wonderful hostess, for the place to stay, for feeding us, and for taking the time to show us all the wonderful sights Olympia has to offer. We'll surely come visit again!