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Farewell PNW

As I sit here on my back deck this morning listening to the birds chirp (some of who like to rise at 4:30 am lately), waiting for everyone get up before we head off back to the Midwest, I reflect on my time here in Western Washington. We’ve spent over seven years in Poulsbo. Over that time we’ve taken many road trips to places like the Redwoods, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Bryce National Canyon, Yellowstone, and Alaska (on a cruise) all of them beautiful places in their own right, but few of them compare to the Pacific Northwest.

While the past few days have been blazing hot and unbearably miserable without air conditioning–and that’s to say nothing of having to pack a semi-truck trailer during that time–a part of me is still going to miss this place, though not nearly as much as my wife. After all, where else in America can you wake up to such beauty and (usually) temperate weather? I can’t think of any.

This place has been good to us. We have good neighbors, made new friends, and, sadly, will be leaving our oldest child here to start his own life as an adult. It’s a bittersweet move to say the least. The good news is that I’m sure we will come back on occasion to visit. That much I know I can look forward to.

Farewell PNW.

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Damian Brindle

My latest book, The Survival Blueprint: How to Prepare Your Family for Disaster, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ49Y5X4

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3 responses to “Farewell PNW”

  1. DaveC

    Thanks for the contributions you’ve made in helping others with preparedness. Keep up the good work in your new home and best of success with new goals and paths.

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  2. Ross Perry

    The Pacific Nothwest is beautiful. For me driving north from California into Oregon you get that feeling of the coastline snd the vibe changing. This then changes again when you enter Washington State. Going further north into Canada it changes again. My best vacations ever is hiring RVs and just exploring the states. Living in the U.K. you realise the big difference. It put me off buying an RV to your Europe. Fist European RVs are like toys to the US versions snd European roads simply cannot accommodate RV travel. Then there is the cost. A small RV in England would be a minimum of 3 times smaller than an average 40 foot US RV

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  3. Robert

    I spent a combined 8 years in the Pacific NorthWET. And the greenery was wonderful. The friends and family in the region, truly why I stayed as long as I did. But I don’t miss the gloom, the feeling boxed in by the hills and trees growing around me. I’m in the south west, in the mountains now and the weather is more extreme, but also more temperate in some ways. less of the grey and a lot less of the dreary. Now I’ve been gone nearly 25 years and as I look around for the next chapter, it’s more like THIS that I’ll be looking to match. So, whatever the next chapters hold for you, I hope you find your new HOME, as it’s more of a feeling than a place.

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