WHERE I LIVE NOW

I am fortunate enough to live surrounded by beauty: The Strait of Juan de Fuca to the north (the body of water separating us from Vancouver Island, Canada), Puget Sound to the east, and the Olympic Mountains to the southwest. Living in the city limits of a small waterfront town we are close to the conveniences yet within a mile in three separate directions from saltwater. On a clear day one can see from Mount Baker to Mount Rainier in the Cascade Range. To top all that off, we have some of the most beautiful Victorian architecture to be found on the west coast and the entire uptown district and the downtown area on Water street have been placed on the National Historic Register. If that weren’t enough, Port Townsend is one of the cities in what is called the “rain shadow” where we average only 16” of rain per year. It rarely gets below freezing or above 80 degrees. And humidity? What humidity? Bugs and mosquitoes? We have some, but they’re not so much of a nuisance that we can’t enjoy ourselves outside on warm summer evenings. They’re more of a problem up in the mountains than down here at sea level. I’ve lived in the Puget Sound area since I was seven years old and have seen a lot of changes in that time, particularly in the Seattle/Tacoma area but up here it’s like going back in time. The pace is slower and people laugh about being on “Port Townsend Time”. I have been fortunate enough to have traveled to many different places in the USA and even crossing the equator and the international dateline as well as being at Greenwich mean time, and although I have found many places of great beauty, many friendly people, and many places I’d like to return to, none of them can hold a candle to the place we’ve chosen as our home now – Port Townsend.