My wife Ellen joined us last night, as Rick returned home, and Andy is busy in the kitchen this morning, and, wa la, it's waffles and strawberries that come out this time. Delish! Dan and Gretchen have just arrived, dropping Dan for the next trip leg. Dan Rowe and I have known each other for 27 years, and we have had all sorts of adventures together. Dan will accompany me (no doubt will need to urge me) up Steven's Pass, before returning home. After another round of farewells, we set off. It's Sunday and traffic is heavy, and the day is heating up. It's the weekend rush all the way up SR 2, with lines of weekend traffic in both directions. Finally Skykomish, at the foothills to the Cascade Range, and we find our room at the historic Cascadia Inn. The town of Skykomish is undergoing a 5 year decontamination project to clean up a decades old oil tank leak that reached the Skykomish River. This will necessitate the demolition or moving of most of this town of 200 persons, removal and replacement of a large amount of soil and infusion of many millions of railroad $$.
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