I arrived in Seattle, Washington this past Wednesday and was greeted at the airport by Chuck and Janet, friends of the WWOOF hosts that I would soon be meeting. We then met Sandy and Larry at a new tree farm they had just bought and the current property owners gave us a 5 1/2 hour hiking tour of their 105 acres, including a hike up the mountain.
After dinner and a scenic drive to their home in Nahcotta, Washington, I met Christina who is another Wwoofer from San Francisco, California who I will be living with for the next several weeks.
Thursday was my first full day here and it started with a bike ride to the grocery after breakfast, followed by visiting Sandy's sister and her goats, and then a drive to Sandy's friend Fred's farm where we would spend the afternoon working on his greenhouse. Fred was a successful restaurant owner and chef who got burned out and sold his business a couple of years ago and bought this farm on 70 beautiful acres with fields, forest, mountains, and a salmon creek complete with a redneck hot tub alongside of it. Fred cooked us an AMAZING lunch and gave us an inspiring tour of his property from the bed of his truck. As we approached a field we saw a herd of elks grazing there, we drove up real close to them and watched them jump a fence and disappear into the forest together.
After Fred's we went to Illwaco for an art walk. We returned home around 7 and I quickly did some school work before the dinner bell rang and we went over to Sandy and Larry's for a candlelight dinner from the garden, some tuna that their neighbors had caught bread from Fred, and wine from another friend. After dinner Larry gave Christina and I massages!
Friday was another wonderful day, as we biked 10 miles each way to another neighbors to work on a cob wall inside his green house.
Today (Saturday) we had blueberry waffles for breakfast, made with eggs from the chickens, berries from the garden, and milk from the goats. Christina and I then hiked Leadbetter Point and she shared some amazing stories with me from her travels, as she has lived in several different countries teaching English.
After hiking we had elk stew and homemade wine along with some other treats from the garden and then we headed to Astoria, Oregon for a sunset and square dance with Sandy and her visiting friends from Seattle!!
