Ithaka - The Get Away Rental On Whidbey Island, Wa.
Why not sit and sit iced tea or a cold beer before unpacking.
Relax.
You have arrived at Ithaka on Whidbey.
the Kitchen table - where family happens.
THe view from Kitchen to Living Room. Comfort and light.
A relaxing glass of wine? A wild game of cards?
Looking back to the kitchen from the living room. Smells like fresh Dungeness [...]
First of all, I guarantee that your ferry ride will not be rough like what we delight in sharing below.
Whidbey is a mellow isle and the arrival by ferry is the granddaddy of all downshifts - a calm, still glide up to the Clinton ferry terminal.
BUT
we did have some fun earlier this year when the [...]
You’ll eat well on Whidbey — every Saturday you can delight in the freshest organic produce and local artisanry at either the Tilth Farmers’ Market or the Bayview farmers’ Market only minutes away from Ithaka.
We love Langley and we encourage you to visit us.
However, Australia is fun too. Check out their sense of humor. These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the
website officials!
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Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain
on TV, how [...]
The Younger Son
by Robert Service
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land,
Where all except the flag is strange and new,
There’s a bronzed and stalwart fellow who will grip you by the hand,
And greet you with a welcome warm and true;
For he’s your younger brother, the one you sent away
Because [...]
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
By Robert Service
I’m a homely little bit of tin and bone;
I’m beloved by the Legion of the Lost;
I haven’t got a “vox humana” tone,
And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
I don’t attempt your high-falutin’ flights;
I am more or less uncertain on the key;
But I tell you, boys, there’s [...]
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, [...]
The greatest of all island poems.
May we all learn to live our lives thusly!
ITHAKA
When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long
Full of instruction, full of adventure.
The Laistrogonians and the Cyclops, angry Poseidon,
You will not meet them as long as your thought is lofty,
as long as a rare emotion touch [...]