Home again, home again, jiggity jig is exactly what Joel and I felt as we opened up the truck door and lo and behold the beast started right up! So as we did the happy dance around the truck in the rain giving each other high fives and explosive knuckles (everyone who knows Joel will know what that is)it hit us that, YES, we are once again under our own steam and officially off on our adventures together. Our past 2 weeks in Alaska were filled to the brim with friends, family, laughter and smiles. We were able to take a wonderful boat trip with Pop and Lucas aboard the good ship Shearwater visiting White Sulphur Hot Springs as well as surfing at Sea lion Cove and picking chantrelle mushrooms on the way home to keep our mind off all the bear sign.
Over labor day weekend we spent time with friends camping and harvesting shrimp, dungeness crab, halibut, rockfish, beach asparagus, huckleberries- needless to say we feasted all weekend long. The weather over our camping trip was night and day with 30 knot winds and hard sideways rain the first day and 70 and sunny the next for our 2 hr trip back to town. Joel and I were able to help Mom with a few projects around the house and celebrate her birthday with her before going south.
On September 10th Joel, brother Lucas and I flew south and said our goodbyes in the Seattle airport (Lucas is off to Guatemala). Joel and I then hopped in with Flo and Nicole (good friends from White Salmon) to drive up to Port Townsend for the Wooden Boat Festival. We spent the weekend amongst friends and aboard John and Melinda Maher's beautiful sailboat the Mycia. We had sunny skies and fair winds making for a great sail- however we could all feel fall in the air. We are now off to Portland and its vicinity for the next week or so before flying to China at the end of the month. The biggest and best news of the summer is Joel and I are engaged. Joel proposed on September 2nd making me the happiest woman alive. No details yet ironed out but do stay posted. All the best from Kjersti and Joel!
Over labor day weekend we spent time with friends camping and harvesting shrimp, dungeness crab, halibut, rockfish, beach asparagus, huckleberries- needless to say we feasted all weekend long. The weather over our camping trip was night and day with 30 knot winds and hard sideways rain the first day and 70 and sunny the next for our 2 hr trip back to town. Joel and I were able to help Mom with a few projects around the house and celebrate her birthday with her before going south. 
On September 10th Joel, brother Lucas and I flew south and said our goodbyes in the Seattle airport (Lucas is off to Guatemala). Joel and I then hopped in with Flo and Nicole (good friends from White Salmon) to drive up to Port Townsend for the Wooden Boat Festival. We spent the weekend amongst friends and aboard John and Melinda Maher's beautiful sailboat the Mycia. We had sunny skies and fair winds making for a great sail- however we could all feel fall in the air. We are now off to Portland and its vicinity for the next week or so before flying to China at the end of the month. The biggest and best news of the summer is Joel and I are engaged. Joel proposed on September 2nd making me the happiest woman alive. No details yet ironed out but do stay posted. All the best from Kjersti and Joel! 
awww Congrats lady! : D
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