For those of you who haven't been following our travels on Facebook, I'll write a few posts to catch you up on the last year.

I'll start with a few earlier posts about Washington and the Tacoma area. We've really enjoyed it here. Believe it or not, we haven't even been into Seattle other than to go to the VA, but Tacoma has been awesome. It's a really funky little place. The downtown area is really into the arts. From little parks randomly dotting the town --

Like Wright Park in these pix:

To random statues and installations placed around town:

All the way down to painting flowers on the street intersections:

We're really digging Tacoma, and more importantly, so is our daughter, who will be staying here.