August 3, 2011
Deborah showed us a great hike in Ebey’s Landing, on the shores of the Strait of San Juan de Fuca.
Bonnie and Deborah on her deck before our hike
On the trail
Whidbey wildlife
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Can you see Mt. Rainier?
Then, after a fabulous musssel-fest at a local 100-year old tavern, she shows us the headwaters of the “River of Surprise” in her yard.
Aug. 4, 2011
Leaving Whidbey Island we stop in for breakfast on the “Coffee-in-the-Woods” place
And head out onto the eastern Washington prairie.
Eastern Washington
We spend the night at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, a terrific old renovated hotel that Bonnie found. Modest luxury and we have dinner at the Wild Sage Bistro only a few blocks away. The food is excellent and certainly better than a lot of SF restaurants that we snobs think are the tops. What a find!
Aug. 5, 2011
We meet Sarah Zbinden for lunch. Sarah is the cover artist for Flight of the Sorceress. 
If you are interested in learning more about her, I’ve posted an interview with her on my Sorceress Blog at http://flightofthesorceress.blogspot.com
After lunch we go to Helena. I pick up my boxes of my new novel, Burning Questions. You can check that out on the Burning Questions blog at http://1970strilogy.blogspot.com
Then we head off to Angie and David’s for a fab dinner of buffalo on skewers with veggies and a fruit cobbler.
- Happy together
Angie and David, also happy
Angie's dessert
Montana moon
Now we are at the Feathered Pipe Ranch where the internet service sucks and it takes 20 minutes to download a picture.