Posted: 3/23/2008 12:14:46 PM EDT
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Do they have jobs there, cause I didnt think they had ferry service still ?  I've actually worked in PT doing a remodel on the State Park-Ft. Worden in '99 or so, and then again when I was doing fiber optics in '01, mostly for the cable provider there. Nice area, although I don't think it would work for me. |
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Port Townsend is full of a bunch of goddamn, patchouli stinking hippies, hippy shops, hippy wannabes, hippy imitators, and communist hippies in general (they don't like Samoa cookies). And they are worse drivers then any asshole you'll encounter in Seattle, LA, NY, or a demolition derby. Short version: They SUCK. Don't go there unless you need to catch the ferry. Other then that, stay the fuck out. |
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Buddy of mine got married there 2 summers ago. I had been there on day trips a few times doing the touristy fun trip w/ some new squeeze. Until I spent an entire weekend there for the wedding I had always thought it was an OK place. It's a shithole with a buncha libtard hippies strung from one end of town to the other. We stayed HERE for 3 days ( nicest / most expensive place in town ) and got shit service from a bunch of shit heads. Funniest part was on checkout day the dip shits at the front desk asked me: "you didn't forget to tip your room service staff did you?"  I shit you not... that was what they said to my face word for word. I still had the room key in hand and shot upstairs real quick and picked up the $20 spot I had left on the table in our room.With my gf standing there I couldn't really give them the full blown ass reamin' they deserved. Checked out and never looked back. Who the fuck asks a guest upon checkout something like that ? The cheap ass room in that 'Victorian style' shit hole cost me $600 bucks for 3 nights. Town full of dumbasses. I am pretty sure one of the Pt Townsend - Keystone Ferries is down for the count and it may crush their summer $eason tourist dollar .... karma's a bitch. |
Hmmmmmmm I take it you dont like it there . Would it be ok if the hippies left. Seriously though I have not been there in a few years but it doesnt sound like its changed much either.
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If the patchouli smelling hippies and shithead drivers were gone, the place would be a wonderful place to visit, hit the quaint little shops in the old town strip, hang out on the dock area and just enjoy the place on a warm summers evening. Until the hippy rubbish is removed though, the place sucks out loud. |
He's still around. I helped out with some fish sensor recoveries in the Tacoma Narrows a couple years back. |
Port Townsend is actually in Jefferson County.  It's not a bad place to visit and I haven't been as greatly offended there as others apparently have. Ft Worden is a fun place for a day with the family. |
I would guess I could pronounce it. Since I live there. For the past 16 years. Port Townsend is in Jefferson county anyway. |
| You might want to call those hippie tree hugging birkenstock wearing quiche eaters a bunch of libtards but like I said, they do have a very nice and very active shooting range right outside the city limits. The neandercons west of there can't seem to build one to save their own hides. |
How is the access to public lands out there these days? I lived on Taylor Cutoff road west of Sequim in the early 80s and always enjoyed being able to just drive up to where the road truned into a forest service road with an abundance of spots to shoot in. That kind of stuff still there or is it all gone/gated off now? |
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Fort Worden is the best part of the town. Lots of bunkers, especially up on the hill. These days they've got an active volunteer group and a good map of all the bunkers, which is both good and bad. Some of the coolest stuff is now locked up. But, the park is really still worth the trip. Fort Flagler is nearby, and has some good bunkers too, though the best of them are officially off limits. Fort Casey, over on Whidbey, has some guns still mounted - two big, two small. Used to be a good surplus store in the downtown area, Sir Plus, but I hear it's closed. There are many, many hippies. |
The FS 2870 road off Taylor cutoff/Lost Mountain is still the best place to shoot around here. There are at least 3 places past the Peninsula LongRifles camp that are, as far as I am concerned, ok to shoot at. You can also just pick a clear cut and do whatever. I met one of the Forest Circus enforcement clowns at the upper Slab camp pit a couple of years back. He made this person (not with us) go back and pick up a cardboard box that he had been shooting at, which was semi-amusing. He came over and talked to us a while too, he was pure prick so I was less amused later. The kids around here have taken to burning cars up there recently but thats no excuse to be a dick. Personally I always take a 5 gallon bucket or 2 and pick up shotgun hulls and what not just to clean up some. I know DNR has shut some gates, Cassiday creek specifically, where people used to shoot down lower (on the power line cut). Same issues I guess, people are pigs but there are no gates on FS land. |
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Port Townsend...where to start? My Grandfather came to Port Townsend in the '20's or '30's from Alberta to work in the mill (Crown Zellerbach at the time). So as you can see, I have long time roots there. Good wholesome mill town through much of the last century, up until the tourism really kicked in and the "usual suspects" DISCOVERED Port Townsend. Lots of people from Cali, liking the area, but then changing it to meet THEIR vision. When I was still on active duty at Whidbey Isand and would go there a few weekends a month to visit family, some of the ASSHATS there wanted Jefferson County and Port Townsend declared a NUCLEAR FREE ZONE - when they were smack dab in the 10 Ring of NAS Whidbey Island, PSNS, Trident base at Bangor - and oh yeah, Indian Island WEAPONS storage 10 miles from town..here And those "service" staff that you were "encouraged" to tip? If they are "recent" residents, they are probably the most OVER educated waiters, waitresses, maids, etc. around as most of them have post graduate degrees (one or more), and moved to Port Townsend for the ambience. Last time I was there was in 2006 to bury my mother, where she rests with a LOT of her family. Lived there for a year in 1995-1996. Will NEVER go back there except to visit the family that still lives there! ETA: Woohoo!! Post #44 in honor of my vintage (original) Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Special with 3" Barrel. YES!!!! headbang.gif |
Also two wineries, one of which is  and the other (Fair Winds) is owned by a pair of retired Coast Guard Captains and the their wives, and does an awesome port, also mead, and some other great stuff.There is also at least one brewery in town, but then, in this part of the country, not having a brewery would be noteworthy. (Also regrettable.) Also, the only place I know with this kind of neighbors. |