Marty's Travels

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Race to Alaska

R2AK.COM is a boat race from Port Townsend to Ketchikan (750 miles) open for any watercraft without an engine. The race starts at daybreak tomorrow in the bay, the winner gets $10,000. Check out their website to see how to follow along with the race.

I saw the Western Flyer

The Western Flyer is a boat loosely associated with the author John Steinbeck, as in "John Steinbeck Slept Here". Dragged off the bottom the ocean, it was put in Port Townsend for "restoration" and eventual display in California. I've written about this a lot, so do the search thing. The barnacles got blown off by a new owner who paid $1 million for it, and who plans on putting $2 million into it's restoration. Then, he moved it into a pole...

Pot: Washington has an astounding sales jump

May sales of retail cannabis In Washington hit $41 million in May, up around 20% from April's sales of $35 million. The last week of May was particularly high. Reasons for this huge jump might be the beginning of the tourist season, an increased supply spurred by the effort to license more growers last fall, and dropping retail prices. We are seeing a flood of product hitting the market from the indoor growers, most of which are packaging...

Pot: Oregon has a problem

One of the rules for legal pot is that it can't be exported out of state. That's one of the rules of the Non-Enforcement Agreement with the Feds. To accomplish that the states have implemented seed-to-sale systems to prove that every gram grown in the state, ends up being sold in the state. Or destroyed. Oregon has an interesting situation: It currently produces enough cannabis to supply Colorado, Washington, Alaska, and itself, and still have...