Hi! I'm Tara and I'm the Blonde Chicken behind all this yarn! You can read more about how I got this 
1 week = last 9 days
72 lb suitcase (spinning wheel + yarn + clothes for a 2 week trip)
2 planes (Tri – Cin, Cin – Sea)
1 great afternoon with Eileen (lunch! cupcakes! epiphanies!)
12 hours talking to awesome Seattlers (and some fabulous Vancouver-ites, including my dear Kim Werker).
2 yarn stores in Seattle (Hilltop Yarn, Fiber Gallery)
2 hours spent talking to Jessica of RoseKimKnits
1 lunch with crafty rockstar Sister Diane.
2 moments of oh-my-gosh-I-took-the-wrong bus! in 2 (!) cities
1 night with 4 fabulous businesses-women at Cairene’s.
2 yarn stores in Portland (Knit/Purl, Close Knit)
1 missed flight (my husband)
1 missed train
54 minutes on the phone with Delta to get the missing luggage sent to our hotel.
1 extra night in Portland
37 hours on a train (Seattle to Portland, Portland to LA, LA to Oceanside)
$40 for some snacks on the train (Jay says, “train-way robbery”. Heh.)
1 yarn store in Southern California (so far!): Clever Knits
2 nights of from-the-garden tomato sauce
7-ish days of being completely unplugged; from internet, from Twitter, even from TV
2 1/2 books read (Not Buying It, Made to Stick, Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society)
2 more days in Oceanside left
10 more hours of plane travel until I’m home to my puppy.
How was your week?
