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Article: When is a vacation not really one?(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2004
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Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard
UNION, Wash. - I am sitting on the deck of an old cabin on the Hood Canal, a 60-mile fishhook-shaped inlet of saltwater on the Olympic Peninsula. I am on vacation, feeling incredibly fortunate and incredibly stupid.
Fortunate because, thanks to the generosity of friends who own this cabin, I'm sitting front-row center on a natural drama of rising and falling tides, of wispy clouds teasing the Olympic Mountains and of maniacal sea falcons - jaegers, I believe - that fly low, swoop upward and suddenly dive dramatically for fish dinner. (Me? I just unwrap another Rice Krispies treat, pocketed from the Olympia wedding ...