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This might sound weird, but we are thinking about fostering kittens or cats in the next year or two. We actually thought to do it sooner, but the closest fostering agency to us requires an in person meeting to go over guidelines, refuse to let us wear masks, and refuse to ask other participants to wear masks or do something online. Their stance was cats and kittens that come into fostering can often be ill themselves and if we are that nervous about getting sick, we are not good foster parents. We wanted to go with this particular agency because they guarantee they will pick up the cat when they are old enough or trained enough or available for adoption enough that the SPCA will pick them up. We do not want another Cat as a full-time Cat, so this was really attractive for us.

I have never heard this about Cat fostering, especially as most Cat disease diseases are not transferable to humans. has anyone heard of this kind of issue and is there anything I’m missing about fostering cats that I would need to be concerned about being immuno compromised? Thanks for any help.

I haven’t used Reddit for traveling, so I kind of forgot there was a whole forum here. Our trip is pretty set, but I’d love to hear any thoughts about things we may have missed or screwed up. Even if we’re held to it I always like to know if I screwed up. This is a combination visiting friends in Olympia and then traveling around the Olympic peninsula that we’ve never done.

I’m leaving out some details as I’m very paranoid about announcing I’m on vacation. This is happening in the next month or so.
We are an older couple, don’t mind some driving, obviously, but aren’t into true hiking, and we don’t care that much about the rainforest although it might be nice to see one. We like the outdoors, but with this isn’t an unplugged type of trip – we focused on towns that are close to nature rather than roughing it or staying inside the park itself.

– A few days in Olympia, the main reason for our trip to visit Friends. We’re set with the Olympia part. We’ve been there before.

- we then go to Sequim for about five days, to relax and enjoy a town that we think will be a good size for us. We will likely go inside the park at some point or maybe up to cape flattery? We don’t want to spend every day driving, but we’ll do some.
- we then go to Westport for about five days. We wanted a different town and I really wanted to have some part of the trip with the pool and that fit the Bill. We understand we’re only close to the most southern parts of the park, but we’re thinking maybe to hit up some beaches?

I realize this is not very detailed, but I just want to hear suggestions and thoughts. We’re skipping Seattle, but we will be in Burien for a couple of days at the end of the trip to be close to the airport.

We’re mostly interested in things that we wouldn’t know about from our basic Google searching, and any recommendations for meals that are not seafood. We will definitely have some seafood meals, but as I am allergic, we try not to focus on that.

I never care about whether something is touristy or not so I’m not saying don’t give me Tourist stuff. I do know about the Hoh forest for example, and wouldn’t be against it, but will probably skip that as we’re not early risers. I understand you have to get there pretty early to avoid the long lines.

Thanks for any help!

I’m assuming these aren’t entry-level jobs? I taught Business administration and finance at SF state for many years and I can tell you the companies would much rather hire someone from out of state than one of our local grads even though who were older students and had a lot of experience.

Is it fin tech or AI or other things that are driving the hiring process here? My fantasy is that they offer jobs to people from out of the area because $110,000 sounds like a lot of money. I hope no one is being tricked to come here.