Category Archives: Friends
Seattle Day 1 – Geek Toys and More Planes
We’d arranged to meet the Clarkes one last time in Seattle for a trip to the Museum of Flight, somewhere I’ve been meaning to go in Seattle for some time but have never got around to. We’d arranged to meet … Continue reading
Seattle Day 0 – The world’s biggest building
After we left the Clarkes, we drove down the I5 to the biggest building in the world (by volume), the factory where Boeing manufactures (or, more accurately, assembles) its wide-bodied aircraft, the 747, 767, 777 and 787. We’d booked a … Continue reading
Lynden Day 2 – Cutting the grass
Day 2 in Lynden was bittersweet. Sweet because we got to spend some more time with the wonderful Clarke family and bitter because we had to say goodbye to ‘Becca, Samuel, and Meg. Sam and I went for a walk … Continue reading
Lynden Day 1 – Rockets and Railway Bridges
We were awake pretty early because of the new time zone (8 hours West of London) and Sam and I went for a walk up the main street of Lynden. Lynden is a Dutch town (Lauren tells me that there … Continue reading
Open House at the Coates’
Well here we are at our final stop – Disneyland – and now we are starting to think about coming home, and how exciting it will be to see everyone. We would like to invite any and all of our … Continue reading
Edinburgh to Lynden – Paved with good intentions
We woke early in Edinburgh and made our way down the hill to the double-decker airport bus. An uneventful 30 minutes later we were deposited right outside the entrance and we trooped inside (after carefully counting our bags), suitably early. … Continue reading
Aaaand another… the good days just keep coming!
Ah, jetlag. What a great invention. It gets you out of bed early even when you’ve had hardly any sleep, and you can get stuff done! It’s 6:30am and no-one needs to be up for another hour, so now I … Continue reading
Another terrific day
I’m now a day and a bit behind in my blogging, and I can’t see how I’m going to catch up. Oh well. So this is a description of the day before yesterday (Saturday). We woke early again due to … Continue reading
Sleepless near Seattle
Ha ha. Lynden is a 2 hour drive from Seattle, and we are waking up at 4am because of the time zone change. The other possible blog post title was ‘Sleepover near Seattle’. Even before we arrived, an open invitation … Continue reading
Coates Trip 2011 