Some of my favorite weekends start with a ferry ride and no real agenda. This past weekend was one of them. The sun came out — that rare, luminous Pacific Northwest spring sun that makes you cancel everything — and my husband and I decided it was finally time to check something off my local wish list: the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island.

In late January, my husband and I packed up our Ford Lightning and headed south on an impromptu road trip with two goals: travel as much of the coast as possible, and make it to Palm Desert in time to watch the Seahawks win the Super Bowl. (Mission accomplished on both counts.)
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