Catching Up...
We rolled north, out of Seattle, in the typical pouring rain, and made the easy run up to the Blaine border crossing, into British Columbia, CDA. Oozed into Vancouver, dodging traffic,
admiring the wealth and beautiful 'burbs, and made it to the nice Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, right across from waterfront/downtown Canada Place and the cruise boat docks.
(Thanks to JCL for excellent local tips/info! )

We had 21 days to 'get to the boat', time-wise, when we left the Mtn Joint in NC, and we spent those days wandering around the southwest and left coast, as you have seen.

Jumped on the Diamond Princess the next afternoon, and sailed away from Vancouver, northward up the Inland Passage toward Ketchikan, AK. Not a cruise fan, but we were invited by V's father and step-mother, (the same people we did the Antarctica cruise with, a couple years ago), and the cruise was going to add 2+ weeks to our 'RoadTrip'.
And, since Alaska was the only state I had never been to, we sucked it up, joined nearly 4,000 other customers on this 1,000 ft long ship, and chugged north, through the Salish Sea, up the Georgia Strait, toward Ketchikan, Alaska, and then into the rain, and more rain, and more...

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