San Juan Family

Of course San Juan Islands breed creative writers and artists, I swear, the ground itself is made of brain food. Perhaps it’s an unknown side-effect of breathing lavender. Either way, another San Juan Islands resident, James Marcus Bach of Orcas Island, has been published. His book, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit [...]

It looks like the goal of moving to San Juan Islands will be manifest sooner than we planned. The pump for the well at the rental house we’re living in has broken and the homeowners can’t afford to fix it. So we sit here with no water and a house full of children who’d be [...]

Spring Street International School’s Spring Fling  San Juan Island Yacht Club — Saturday, May 8,  2010 5—8:30 PM 0:6174 1:Spring Street International School’s Spring Fling 2: Subscribe by email. Just enter your email address;

This race was previously known as the Journal Run and before that the Record Run. The run is cooperatively organized by San Juan Island FitnessClub and Island Rec. It begins on Spring Street, goes through town on Warbass to Turn Point, to Pear Point to Argyle and ends inside the gate of the Fairgrounds. It’s [...]

San Juan real estate agent Sarah Jones has one of the best real estate agent websites I’ve seen. I simply gobbled up her blog posts about life on the islands. She only has 4 articles up on her blog, but each one is well-written and helps me actually “feel” that island life. I liked that [...]