Mainline travel guides urge you to visit Washington State's Olympic Peninsula in summer. What you mostly see then are SUV's full of tourists lined up in front of you, waiting to see the same things that the same travel guides sugge
st as top attractions. Here is the secret: the Olympic Peninsula is not a place to see. It is a spirit to experience. Its spirit brings peace and joy, a renewed closeness to nature and a personal healing to wounds of the heart and scars of civilization. To experience the Olympic Peninsula that can't be seen, show up between January and May, sit on a beach, close your eyes and wait
