Bellingshizzle

[aggienaut]

   Hello all from Bellingham, Washington! Today is my second day off! I've been on the boat now for about 1.25 months (only 4.75 months to go! ): )

   Bellingham seems like a really nice place. Reminds me a lot of Davis actually. Lots of cute coffeeshops and things downtown, with bulletin boards packed with flyers about all kinds of events -- definitely a lot of culture here.

   And the weather is finally nice -- it hasn't rained since we got here AND it's finally been warm enough to wear t-shirts (without five layers over them!)

   We have plenty of crewmembers right now, I think 13, but in the next week or so we happen to be losing all our volunteer deckhands, which would reduce the crew to something ridiculous like 7 or 8. Clearly it's time to break out the press gangs and shanghai some people!!

   Knuckles the cook (and his brother Fingers) have left, but the new cook Lance (aka Sir Cooksalot) has been doing a really good job so far ... that is until he came down with "boat plague" on his third day. Any sickness is termed "boat plague" because it tends to sweep through the entire boat. Fortunately I am largely immune to sickness ... probably because my heart is black and beats not blood but a thick fluid of pure coldness, causing germs to run from me in utter terror. (:O


Picture of the Day


Sarah Baker (my predecessor in this position, joining us here in Bellingham because she's a Bellinghamster herself) using the sextant on the bridge of the Lady Washington


See also: other pictures I uploaded the other day.


Upcoming itinerary

Comments

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

gildedage went to school in Bellingham! You should look around the town at the historical markers!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've seen a bunch of them, it's a neat place!

Hello from Boundary Bay Brewery! Currently drinking an imperial oatmeal stout!

[drcuriosity]

Good choice! I'm suddenly thirsty/hungry :-)

I'm not sure quite what it says about me, but girls with sextants are hot for some reason. *shrugs*

[gildedage.livejournal.com]

She's talking about the historical markers outside the Fairhaven train station that say "President Milton buggied past here" "Matthew was cut in half by a tram" "Dectective Johnson was shot here six times in 1859, 60, 64" "this used to be the pond where people would throw their cats" "Here a Chinaman sold his daughter"

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Lolz!!

[gildedage.livejournal.com]

ALSO: BELLINGAM WWOOOOO. I miss Boundary Bay. This weekend is the big Western Washington University Come Back and Get Drunk and Do Stuff Weekend at Boundary Bay Brewery and I'm missing it. Be glad you are there!

Also glad to see there is still roller derby and Ladyfest and the Farmer's Market.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

Ok WTF weird. You are the SECOND person to mention being in Bellingham WA, which is where Stupid Ex™ is from. Creeeepy.

[missfuzzybunny.livejournal.com]

Grade schools are good places to look when replenishing your crew! Grab the slow ones, and crew problem solved.

[technophobe1975.livejournal.com]

Loving the picture with the crew silhouetted against the sky.

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!