“ That’ s a lot of states you’ ve got there” says a man at the gas station, looking at the sticker map on the RV.“ Are you planning on going to Washington?”“ Yes we are, in a few months or so” Jonas says.“ Then you have to check out the rain forest up there” the man says.“ Rain forest?” says Jonas,“ In Washington?”.
Finally we were there. At the West Coast of America. We had crossed the entire country and saw the ocean again for the first time in many months. The evergreen state was truly evergreen. It actually has a real rain forest, The Olympic National Forest, and we went there to record one of the videos for the acoustic video album“ There’ s a Man In a Smiling Bag”. But more exciting for me was to go to“ The Great Northern”. Anyone who knows their“ Twin Peaks”( the 1990’ s TV show by David Lynch) knows The Great Northern, the big old hotel at the edge of the Snoqualmie Falls. The house is actually a restaurant and spa and is called Salish Lodge, and even though the beautiful big house was central in the TV show, the scenes inside was shot at different location. Since my album“ The Owls Are Not What They Seem” was named after the show it was great to see it in real life.
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