Our pace today is decidedly more relaxed than yesterday as we make our way from Lake Wenatchee to Seattle where we will be staying at the home of Jeanine’s close friend Tess Robins and her boyfriend. Along the way we stopped for numerous landscape photo opportunities and to pick up lunch in the small town of Leavenworth, population ~2000. The city struggled until 1962, when business owners cooperated to form a mock Bavarian village, inspired by the California town of Solvang which I visited several times while working out of Sonos’ Santa Barbara office.

Jeanine and Tess have been friends for half their lives. They met while working together at a restaurant in Indianapolis shortly before Jeanine and I were introduced and have remained close since.

After dinner Jeanine left with Tess while I lingered for a few tourist shots of Pike Place Market at sunset.