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Bookmark.Įnter your email address to subscribe to Life on Orcas Island and receive notifications of new posts by email. Life sometimes gives you amazingness like the day above even when the last thing you want to do is stop and “be” at a ferry terminal for four hours. Not too shabby, eh? I even ran into a couple from the church we used to attend in Santa Barbara before moving to Orcas Island nine years ago. Gudgell Properties, LLC Island Hardware and Supply Island Petroleum Island Thyme Orcas Food Co-op Rainshadow Solar and Ray’s Pharmacy. Business sponsors include Doe Bay Wine Co.

There’s a beautiful trail along the ocean right down from the Anacortes ferry terminal. Sponsors were foundational to the tournament’s success. What do you do with an extra four hours with no car and no access to anything in the aether? You walk and walk and walk. The lack of connectivity is starting to get old.

I’d probably get a lot of life’s details done if I had cell service but I don’t. And when you’re coming back after a big trip, just a relatively tiny ocean crossing away from home and your ferry is removed for repair, all of a sudden you get an extra four hours to ruminate on life.

It’s a branch off of “island time” that we all accept. If we weren’t on an island, it would only take a little more than half that time. It’s a 12-hour journey from my doorstep to my mom’s in Texas – drive, wait, ferry, wait, shuttle, wait, airplane, drive. How wonderful it felt to experience normalcy again. So I got an extra day with family, drove around the neighborhood where we grew up, and relished some more needed “gathering” in my mom’s living room. Normally in pre-COVID times, the shuttle runs every couple hours until late at night, but thanks to COVID, Bellair had to make some changes and now the last shuttle leaves the Seattle airport each night at 5 PM. Had I stuck with my delayed original flight, I wouldn’t have been able to catch my Bellair Airporter from SeaTac to Anacortes. In fact, I almost made her miss her ferry again as we were walking and talking. It was only during her final half-hour on the island that I got to know her as we hung out in her little cabin at Bob and Kandiss Susol’s place and at the ferry landing, awaiting her departure.

I did some quick connecting with my sister as she was driving away from the airport after dropping me off, asking if she’d circle back and retrieve me so I could stay an extra day. I only got better the last day she was here.

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I had shown up to catch my delayed flight in Dallas the previous day to find that American Airlines was offering free rescheduling for flights the following day. When coming back from a trip to Texas to visit my mom and siblings after a year-plus of COVID “staying-in-place,” I arrived at the Anacortes ferry for the last leg of the journey home.

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You’re already 30-60 minutes early in the ferry line so you don’t lose your reservation, and then a ferry is removed from the day’s schedule for a repair, or an important ferry worker has an emergency, or someone brings a car full of ammunition and everything comes to an immediate halt (not at all a common occurence, but it happened a month ago!).