Time to hit the road again, this time to visit the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, an annual event based around Mount Vernon, a town about an hour and a quarter's drive north of Seattle. The Tulip Festival is touted as one of the area's main attractions, and attracts visitors from Canada as well as the USA. We nearly had second thoughts, after reading on the Tulip Festival Website that more than 850,000 people visit the Tulip Festival yearly. If you check the website, and look at the map, you will see that there is basically only one main highway running north and south, and the visitors clog it annually, Massive traffic jams are the order of the day, something which we try to avoid at all costs. With this in mind, we arose at 5 a.m. and caught the ferry at Mukilteo, a little north of Seattle, to drive north on Whidbey Island and try to approach the tulip fields from a different direction. It was one of Tim's inspirations, for we had uncrowded views of all of the main fields, which shone like jewels, despite the gray skies. Join us now, at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. ... Next Home