Article: Islands of delight: a visit to Washington's San Juan Islands just might change your life.

Normal satisfied well-balanced people visit the San Juan Islands all the time. But they don't usually decide to stay. If they do it's probably a mistake and they'll have to pay a pile of cash to ferry their worldly goods back to the mainland a few months or years later. The San Juanderers who come and stick are different. They are creative, ingenious. Self-reliant, romantic, iconoclastic unapologetically odd. And they would cheerfully embrace all these adjectives as compliments. * Everyone who craves to stay and carves out a way to do it has a story, usually a good one. Rhea Miller a two-term county commissioner thought she was coming for a three week visit. "When I got ...

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