San Juan Family

Get ready for another fabulous San Juan Island 4th of July. The Friday harbor parade is an island favorite, starting at 10:30 am and the fireworks display has been called “The best in the country” more than once. After the parade, enjoy the pig war reenactment and picnic at the San Juan Historical Museum. At [...]

Homeschoolers in the San Juan Islands gives families time to explore the fantastic State parks in the region.  Park ranger turned homeschooling dad, Jon Merryman, keeps a website for indexing his family’s experiences at all of the State parks.  Apparently they have a Junior Ranger badge program, and his kids have been to several state [...]

This one was particularly interesting to me, as I’d always been fascinated with the act of making concrete. I was as pleased as any geek-mom could be when I saw that they had an entire park named after  a Lime Kiln.  It was all so beautiful, I really forgot to visit the kiln area.  We [...]

The Gulliksons are back…. It was a nice surprise to see Glen and Bobbie (right) on the ferry yesterday – they’re back from their tour of the States (and a chunk of time in sunny Florida) to move back aboard on their boat & return to work on the island. Subscribe by email. Just enter [...]