Poulsbo (population 6800) is one of those typically American communities originally settled by immigrants (mainly Norwegians, in this case), which now relies on that ethnic background to promote itself as a tourist destination:
We enjoyed a sunny afternoon browsing through some of the shops on the main street. In the used bookstore, I bought "The Gingerbread Man" for Amber and Matsuo Bashō's 松尾芭蕉 "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" おくのほそ道 for myself, while Pamela purchased a pair of shoes at a shoe store. In between the two shops, we stopped off to eat at a bar that was offering craft beers for just a penny if you ordered a burger for lunch - bacon cheeseburgers and India Pale Ales make a great pair. God bless America (at least the blue parts of it!):
We finished off our visit to Poulsbo by taking a leisurely stroll along the waterfront. The reason the flag is flying at half-staff in the photo below was in honor of a female Washington state corrections officer who was murdered by an inmate the day before we arrived in Seattle):
The Pacific Northwest can be a gray, dismal place at times in the winter (or any other season, for that matter), but the sunsets to be seen from outside my parents' home are often a sight to behold:
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