We’re local tourists this summer. Take that, COVID-19. You can take away our big international trips but you can’t keep us home.
Our summer getaway strategy has been housesitting while other people are doing their own travel. We’ve rotated between your Uncle Jeff’s parent’s house, Jim and Cassandra’s beach house, the Broili house and Aunt Nina and Uncle Jeff’s house this past month. That has put us in La Conner, Key Center, (deeper) North Tacoma and Bellingham. It’s been awesome to base out of these different places for local adventures.
The major through line at all of these places has been water. You’ve gotten a ton of swim time at lakes, in the Puget Sound and of course in our oversized patio pool on the weekdays in between. It’s important to get comfortable in water and eventually without a life jacket. There are a lot of water activities to enjoy, but you can’t sink.
All of this water time has really inspired your Mom and I to look at more lake access places and even the idea of owning our own lake house one day. Fresh water is hard to come by in this region of the country, but it’s possible. We’re not opposed to being on the Sound as an alternative. You, reading this in the future, can tell me if we had any success. Mark this letter as the moment we got somewhat serious about trying.
Your Mom and I have made ourselves famous among our friends and family for always teasing a real estate idea but of course never really acting on it. Our version of crying wolf is crying Redfin. The real challenge we have is focus on what we want. Being opportunistic is great and all, but focus is what drives decisions. I think you’ll find that to be true in most aspects of life: education, career, love, real estate. You keeping swimming, we’ll keep house hunting and let’s see where we all get.
Love, Dad