{"id":3490,"date":"2025-07-02T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:34:36","slug":"victoria-2025-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3490","title":{"rendered":"Victoria 2025 | Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unlike our recent Chicago trip, this one was to be a road trip. We find we really like road trips, listening to an audio book on the long drives and just enjoying the scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We left, as usual, around 10 am and headed north. This is our \u201cnormal\u201d for a couple of reasons. First, it let\u2019s us have a comfortable, unrushed morning, and second, it puts us at the Vancouver supercharger right around noon for lunch. You see, there\u2019s a Thai restaurant we really like in the shopping center adajcent to the charger, so we can \u201cfill up\u201d while we eat. And we did just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first night was at a B&amp;B we really enjoy in Port Angeles and we rolled in right around 4:30. This gave us time to unload the necessities from the car and head out for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tried a new spot, the 929, A Woodfired Grill. We had heard their halibut was to die for. But the water had been too choppy that day and they didn\u2019t have halibut. We \u201csettled\u201d for the smoked salmon linguini. Oh. My. Word. It was phenomenal. If you\u2019re ever in Port Angeles, go there.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1.jpg?resize=525%2C700\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dinner-01-1-scaled.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We settled in for the night and looked forward to a wonderful breakfast the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike our recent Chicago trip, this one was to be a road trip. We find we really like road trips, listening to an audio book on the long drives and just enjoying the scenery. We left, as usual, around 10 am and headed north. This is our \u201cnormal\u201d for a couple of reasons. First, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Victoria 2025 | Day One&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}