Category: Fort Flagler

Fort Flagler – Thursday April 16, 2015

It is a beautiful day at Fort Flagler

Sunny and warm for April, we will be here at least through the weekend and maybe for a week or so.  We have site 115 which is a front row seat to the northern opening of Puget Sound.

By the way it is first day back to work for the lovely Mrs. Tanya Garcia our son-in-law Mike Garcia doesn’t return to work until Monday.  They are both wonderful people. 

 

Fort Flagler – Saturday June 7, 2014

Hank and I are spending the weekend at Flagler.  Nine months ago I made reservations for all the weekends in June.  I’ve had to cancel the next two weekends and Jean has to work tonight so Hank and I came out to enjoy the great weather.

Hank rode shotgun for a while:

Retirement count:  25 calendar days 18 work days, Jean had 12 work days.

One of my retirement goals to do a lot of hiking.  GPS technology has advanced to the point where I could buy a unit which will transmit my location to a satellite every 10 minutes and post the position on a website anyone can access.  This is posted in real time.

Some of the cool things: as I said transmits location every 10 minutes, stores location inside the unit every 15 seconds (this is uploaded over web later), will sent and receive 160 character texts, can create stock text for quit transmit, confirms a text was received by satellite, has SOS button, operates for 100 hours, can set the location transmit at up to 4 hours, the unit can be pinged to give it’s location, pairs with smart phone for topo maps, and other cool things.

This is a screen print I took from Ipad.  The drive over here on Friday, the way points are every 10 minutes so this will also show where the traffic was the heaviest.
Couple of walks around the park.

The long line going to the bottom of the picture is from the drive in Friday.  It looks like it will be a cool tool we can use to show where we are whether we have internet or not.  This just needs a clear look at the sky.  Oh, by the way it is Delorme inReach Explorer.

It is also summer time.

Strawberry daiquiri time, had two.  I bought some frozen strawberries and put them into serving size zip lock sandwich bags, had three in the freezer (thinks for the GREAT idea, Jean).  Hank and I are both tired, we were up and at it early this morning, did a walk around the park before PBS’s Car Guys and Wait Wait.  Tanya gave me a FitBit at Christmas and today was the first day over 20,000 steps, 21,356 right now.

That’s it for today, no more motor home trip before retirement.

 

Fort Flagler – Saturday, May 17, 2014

Great day at Flagler, Hank and I had a good walk and it was sunny all afternoon. I got a little sun burn.

I’m typing this on an iPad version of WordPress so we’ll see if it will let me put up more than one picture. Here is site 87 again:

Hummm. I see the code for picture’s location but no picture.

Here is our walk:
This is a rhodendron I saw:

This is our last trip to Flagler for a while. We will be at Penrose for the holiday weekend and home all of the weekends in June. July 3 starts retirement and most of July and August in the Cascades hiking and camping, then it’s south to Utah and the Southwest for September October and most of November.

Times to publish this to see what I get. Harry

Fort Flagler – Sunday May 4, 2014

Saturday was a nice day.

Tanya and Mike came by for a while, Hank and I got out for a walk although it was cut short by the threat of rain.  We were on the other side of island with a stiff wind and big clouds so we cut across the middle of the island.
I want to post a picture of our walk and the app which keeps track of my work count down. I’ve used this app for years to count down to vacation.  I’ll post the text and then come back and add the pictures.

Fort Flagler – Saturday May 3, 2014

Nice sunny morning, temp at 60 degrees, setting outside listening to Wait Wait.
We have been working on our retirement count down. Jean’s last day will be June 30th and mine will be July 3rd – that is 61 calendar days with 42 work days. I’m not sure how to type and express how much we are looking forward to this event but we are.

Current plan is to spend July and August at Crystal Mountain hiking and enjoying the mountains. I will be 64 this year and not sure how many years Hank and I will be able to climb up a mountain side. Last week in August we will move south to spend Labor Day in Reno with my brother than on to Zion National Park for two weeks starting September 10th. Than on to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The goal is to be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas than south in February/March to be in Phoenix for spring training. We will spend the spring in the Southwest and home for the “Summer”.

That is our current plan. Stay tuned for July 3rd count down and follow the adventure. I still plan on posting a picture of each campsite.

Have a great day, in 3 hours and 10 minutes it will be 60 days.

Fort Flagler – Friday May 2, 2014

Back to Flagler for the weekend I left work at 11:15 and we got here at 3:00.  We’re in site 89 again,
Even with the early arrival most of the sites were taken.  The state has been working hard at coming up with more ways of getting money out of us.  When we were here on March 30th there was a sign saying that camping rates were going up on April 1st however the new rates would NOT be posted until April 1. Here is the new camping pricing matrix;

Each site is identified with letters to tell you how much the site will cost. There are weekday rates and weekend rates, along with three seasonal rates: winter – shoulder – summer. Also each park has a different definition for the three seasons.  Thanks Jay.

The park has added a chart showing how much each site will cost

Remember this is only for the Shoulder season.  I think the rates go up $2.00 for summer.

I’m writing this on my phone and I think my first two pictures have disappeared.

Edit: looks like I can post one picture at a time.