Where to go when you want to escape: Utopia (or Mount Vernon)?

It’s Friday evening. You just left work. Driving home you get a notion to… just keep driving. Where would you go? To your cabin in the woods? A small farmhouse on a hill with a porch and a view of the sun setting over the Olympics? Maybe a modern house set next to a river that makes a sound tempting you to ditch your day job and fish professionally.

What if you had a place to go? I remember a reporter for the PI telling me about his cabin he’s building up in the North Cascades. He had to hike everything in. There was no power, no telephone, no lights. You could tell this was his idea of fun by the way his face lit up talking about it. An extreme example of escaping? Yes, but you’d be amazed what’s out there.

I was touring around Mount Vernon for a client and ran across this great escape. A charming 1920’s farmhouse situated on 20+ acres of pasture for under $400k. It’s an ideal retreat in the foothills of the North Cascades and the street address alone makes you want to go there. And best of all? Once you’re there if you want to escape your escape, civilization is just down the road and no ferry line. Take a look:

http://stuartminer.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.ListingDetail&ListingID=34093873

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