Spent the first weekend this year at Marty’s Place in Langley, Whidbey Island (WA, USA). Not too far from Vancouver, ~3 hours without border line ups - not much more than a ferry ride to Vancouver Island. We stayed at a restored heritage farm house. They’d done a great job bringing it back and it felt like we had come home as soon as we arrived. A huge kitchen, large dining room, living room overlooking Saratoga passage, sitting room, media room and upstairs 4 bedrooms and an office sprouting off a long hallway that ended in a windowed sitting area. Clear-stained dark wood over everything. A house big enough to entertain in and for the family to spread out. Oh - 5 acres with a firepit overlooking the ocean!
Langley itself was a nice community. Nice shops, the main food store was well stocked and had a small organic section. Bakery across the street. My wife picked up a handful of wonderful puppets for our upcoming plane ride to Paris.
I decompressed.
