It is difficult to find a crummy place\nto wander in this part of the world. Today we left our campground in\nBow, headed west on Bow Hill Road toward WA-11. On the way, we made a\nquick stop at Samish Bay Creamery where they make and sell a variety\nof nifty cheeses, all of them with prices beyond the budgets of\nnon-millionaires. All of the products we saw had prices exceeding $20\na pound. We get our extra sharp Tillamook cheese at Costco for around\n$5 a pound. Our stop at this dairy producer was very brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSoon we came to WA-11 in Edison, where\nwe turned north for a gorgeous drive into Whatcom County. The first\nbit was through pasture lands and everything was emerald green. After\nabout 20 minutes we started climbing along the western side of an\nenormous forested rock that borders Samish Bay, a huge expanse of\nshallow water, the exit for the Samish River and a part of the\nmassive strait between the U.S. and Canada. The road became quite\nnarrow and curvy once we were along the western fringe of the rock.\nThere were some residences on the strait side of the road but they\nseemed to all be built with the garage on top (the roof), next to the\nroad, and the rest of the house built beneath it because the ground\nis so steep that building further from the road would mean the back\nporch is about 100 feet above the remainder of the cliff leading down\ninto the sea. That last step would be a big one. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tFairhaven was the first real town we\ndrove into and it is a gorgeous little enclave of old wood houses and\nbrick masonry downtown commercial buildings. It was sort of like\ngoing back in time, to a cute little town with seemingly happy folks\ndwelling in magnificent buildings. It is very pasty white. There\ndon’t seem to be any other humans than white ones and none of them\nhave a tan. From Fairhaven, there is a ferry that can take folks to\nthat portion of Alaska along the inland passage up the coast of\nBritish Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After meandering a bit, we got back on WA-11 for a little ways to Bellingham. This, too, is a beautiful little city with magnificent buildings and folks free of sunburn. We found a what must be the northernmost Trader Joe’s in the U.S. and picked up a variety of their spiffy goods before returning via I-5 south to our beloved fifth wheel trailer in Bow. It wasn’t a long drive today but it was full of stunning scenery, fantastic building architecture and good shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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