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Story Ideas
They Call It the Magic Skagit
Magic, 2010 Winter Olympics,
Skagit
Valley
& La Conner
Imagine hanging out in a coastal town with no stoplight, no speed limits over 25, and no car necessary. Picture yourself waking up to the salty smell of the Puget Sound, listening to seagulls, and watching tugboats pass by as you sit on your private deck sipping a perfect latte. Taste the food fresh from the harvest at award winning restaurants. Let your visual senses take in the
Museum
of
Northwest Art
, 21 art galleries, and the outdoor sculpture exhibit.
After a day of peaceful hanging out, hop on the Amtrak to Vancouver for a relaxing and scenic train ride to
Vancouver
. Step out of the train station into the hustle & bustle of the international urban city of Vancouver,
British Columbia
. In hand you have your tickets to one of the many 2010 Winter Olympic competitions – alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, ice sledge hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboard, and speed skating. Let your adrenaline go wild!
After a day of urban energy, competition and crowds of people from around the world, hop back on the Amtrack to one of the least populated counties on Interstate-5 in
Washington.
Wind down
for a restful
Skagit
Valley
evening.
Skagit
Valley
is beautifully situated between Seattle to the North,
North
Cascades
National Park
to the East, San Juan Islands to the West and
Vancouver BC
to the North. The Amtrak ride from Skagit Valley to Vancouver BC is 2 1/2 hours....about 1 1/2 hours if traveling by car with an average wait time at the border.
As Tom Robbins quotes in the book Natural Skagit – a journey from mountains to sea, “ “They call it the magic Skagit”….”transporting the dreams of those who work to preserve and protect this increasingly threatened swan-blanched drizzleland, the enlightened who recognize that maintaining a respect – nay, a reverence!-for wildness, for the Skagit’s raw peaks, dark arbors and primordial bogs, is an essential component of what it means to be truly human, truly alive”. Tom Robbins resides in La Conner, Washington.
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