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man alive. what a wild week. dont even know where to begin. i bitched out my dad for the first time ever ? hahaha like afterward he actually felt bad. i dont think ive ever seen my dad feel bad about something he did/didnt do and it was about time. hahaha so the details are no longer important but i think i'll still tell the story because now it's just humorously typical of my father (humourous because i just should have known!) So he'd been working on my car for months and told me to come get it a week before my roadtrip. he said he'd take it in to get a diagnostic on the electrical system cuz he felt something was fishy before letting me take it home to seattle. so when i picked it up the following week i assumed he'd done that and there was nothing to report. instead, two days later my battery was dead. my roommate and i jumped it to see what would happen and the next day it was dead again. so my dad made plans with me to come to seattle and fix it on a monday (my trip would start tuesday). sunday night i get an email that asks if im busy tuesday because then mom could come with. (meaning he is scared to come to the city alone). so i comply, forfeiting the san juans part of the trip i'd planned, and say that tuesday im free, with the understanding that he was coming to seattle to take my car to the shop to get that diagnostic he'd initially talked about. tuesday morning he and mom show up. dad brings his battery charger and hooks up the battery. also fixes a switch that had busted off the dash that controls the headlights. also fixes the front gate that was falling apart haha (now that the gate is fixed it latches properly, meaning ive gotten locked out of my front yard a hand full of times in the past week!?) then he announces that while the battery is charging he's gonna go visit my grandma and then come back to check it out. however glad i am that he's visiting his mother, when they left i knew he wasn't coming back. a couple hours later i get a phone call from mom, on their cell phone that they don't know how to use "hi honey we're leaving grandma's now and dad wants to know if we can just head south on the highway instead of coming back north". so frustrating. i couldve charged the battery myself. the day before. if that was all that was gonna happen i coulda saved them the trip and one of my own days off work. anyway so i called him later once they were home and bitching about how disappointed i was. it was out of character but also felt kinda good to speak my piece. and then weds or thurs when i got the car to belfair he was all gung-hoe to get it fixed immediately. haha onwards to the good part of my vacation! 4 nights driving around the olympic peninsula seein tons that i havent seen in like 15 years! kalaloch was a fuckin awesome stretch of beach, seemed totally pristine! hoh river rainforest was crazy cool, everything moss! lake quinalt saw like 3 dozen elk mosey up from the river bed. when laura ran out with her camera they circled up with a trot and then all at once turned their heads to stare at her! i thought, please dont let that mean charge ahahaha they just went back to grazing after about 30 seconds... we stayed at the fucking wackiest hostel in the world im pretty sure! old guy named jim runs a hostel outta his house, the spare bedroom is filled with bunk beds. he charges $10/person/night and 25 cents for a towel !? haha he looked like he's lived in the woods forever too, tattered shirt, tattered jeans, tattered suspenders, crazy hair. he was very kind though. despite being absolutely crazy. he lives on this wild caveman diet. i couldnt identify anything i saw him eat! it all looked like an oily slop that was a red/brown/grey color. he described a broth he made by boiling beef bones and organs from a neighbor's cow they'd slaughtered. after removing the cartilege he added "low sugar vegetables" and then he gladly said "at the end i tossed in some eggs and avocados!" whatever floats your boat!?!? oh yeah and in the morning each one of us had to do 15 minutes of chores, that was part of the deal. so silly, awesome, and worth it. ocean shores was enjoyable too actually.. low and behold we were there the same weekend as a razor clam festival?!? so the town was bumpin' n we'd been 4x'n near the steel bridge earlier that day so the pathfinder was covered in mud. we looked legit so everyone in town was like "oh! you girls here to dig clams!?" or "oh yeah, you girls are gonna hit the tide in the morning!" haha so nutty, seriously everyone in town stoked about clam tides... those are the highlights. if you get the chance travel around the peninsula. it's a hoot. it's actually been a strange readjustment to the city which is a cool feeling i didnt expect after being gone for just a week.