Washington Trip Part 9

Alright, so, let's wrap this stuff up! Our last day in Washington was pretty relaxed. We drove to Storm King Mountain in the Olympics, and then drove to SeaTac (it's apparently a town as well as an airport!).

The drive up to Storm King was pretty great. We saw more deer, a grouse (I think), and some beautiful views.

We saw this guy on the side of the road, so we just pulled over, while Mrs Titan was taking some pics, someone else came over to see what we were doing.

He just walked up to us, so we took some pictures and kept driving to the top. Here is what we saw.

Nothing like flying across the country for some snow covered mountains. I mean, we would have to drive for at least half an hour to get to the nearest snow covered mountain, and I would have to go all the way to the back porch to be able to see one. I love Colorado. The mountains there were great though. It's always fun to see the ocean while standing atop a mountain. It was a beautiful drive.

While we were in Port Angeles we noticed that there was some kind of convention in town. There were a lot of older women staying at our hotel, and signs all over town saying "Welcome Espirit". I've never heard of Espirit before (well, except the clothes company). Anyway, one morning we saw some of the women standing around chatting, but, something didn't sound right. Their voices...they were men. Some of them kinda big men. Turns out we were staying at the hotel that was holding their convention.

Espirit is "the Pacific Norhwest's Premiere Transgender Convention." I really don't have a lot of experience with the transgendered, but it was always a little odd walking around town and at Storm King (where they were instructed to "wear their hiking heels." It's a little uncomfortable not being able to tell who the person next to you is. The bathroom situation was also a little disconcerting for both Mrs Titan and myself. This is interesting though, rule #1 for the convention from their website:

Presentation: Attendees are required to present a feminine or masculine gender
without ambiguity. When presenting as a female, you must be clean-shaven,
wearing makeup as needed, and conducting yourself as a proper lady. When
presenting as a male, you must conduct yourself as a gentleman and are not
allowed to wear exclusively feminine attire (for example, dresses). It is not
necessary to stick to one presentation during your entire stay.

I don't know much (or anything really) about presenting as a transgender, but it seems to me that if you are presenting as a female you should at least try to speak like one. Many of the "women" we saw had voices as deep as James Earl Jones with no attempt to mask it.

Anyway, that's enough of a trip into the world of the transgender. It's a little different.

All in all, the Washington trip was amazing. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a unique and beautiful place to go. It was amazing and Mrs Titan and I will have memories to last a lifetime. I hope you all enjoyed my trip diary. I will be back to normal posting tomorrow. We'll be skipping comics for movies this week.