There is this place where mountains are covered with snow at the hottest time in summer and the sea encircles the dwellers' as a womb to an unborn baby. This is a place where you can be wet-kissed by the splashing waves and astounded by subtle layers of colors of twilights. This is a place where the modern city is at its best rate of development, yet can be quickly left out of mind by driving away to the most pristine nature of mountains and sea, grass and trees, inner lands and islands, secluded huts and houses on the islands where the most ubiquitous modern conveniences such as your smartphones cannot reach.
In here, you are as close to modernity as you are to nature. Still, you are as close to the nature of nature, as you are to the nature of its human beings.
Our trip of 19 people, over six days, was transformed directly into sweet memories of precisely guided tours of the city and its surroundings, carefully prepared dinner banquets, well-coordinated change of tasks between helpers, you the owners, and as the capstone to all these, of one night of secluded living in island and one day of riding the motorboat to hunt crabs, and cut seaweeds freshly floating just beneath of surface of the deep blue seawater. And the relaxed conversations, and the caring to crack the crab shells for our ease of consuming the freshness insides, and the pictures that hold our desire of saving another yet another copy. It is out of this very world, yet it feels to be out of the world.
Too good, but still true! Good day, Seattle! Goodbye, Seattle!
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