Day 3 · Scheduled earlier
Everett
Everett Station, Everett, Washington
Everett, between the river and the bay
This day on the route
- Planned date
- The day
- Walking
- Planned walking
- 10.8 miles
Day 3: 10.8 planned walking miles to Everett Station. Day 4 is the planned Everett Awareness Day; no station-hosted event is announced here.
Route overview, not turn-by-turn directions.
The planned 10.8-mile leg reaches Everett Station. Everett’s waterways and transport history frame the first city pause, with an Awareness Day scheduled next.
Everett stands between Port Gardner Bay and the Snohomish River. The city describes itself as Snohomish County’s largest, with a historic downtown and a working waterfront. These two bodies of water help explain its position on the regional map: the route reaches a city shaped by both river and saltwater connections.
Everett Station is the planned public anchor. Amtrak’s station history dates the intermodal facility to February 2002 and describes the transport services brought together there. The station brings a modern layer to a city long connected by river, bay and railway.
Day 3 carries 10.8 planned walking miles. The following day remains in Everett for the first of ten Bone Marrow Awareness Days. That arrangement gives the opening chapter two distinct endings: the walking leg into the city and a separate day devoted to the campaign’s educational purpose.
From the road
Everett, a fire station and a proclamation
She packed up the tent that morning and went looking for a lift back to the four miles she had already covered the day before. She found one at a car wash: a man named Tony, who drove her up the highway, had a good visit with her on the way, and photographed the QR code that hangs round her neck so that he could follow the walk and encourage others to join the registry.
It was sunny and hot, but her body was getting stronger, and the pack no longer felt as heavy as it had on the first couple of days. She was in Everett by two in the afternoon, early enough to feel good about it, and spent the rest of the day doing the thing the walk is for. At Everett Fire Station #1 a very kind firefighter took the information to share with the crew who were in for training; they might have found her a bed, but the training had filled the station.
On her way to City Hall she asked at a couple of hotels about a room; the Marriott Courtyard was willing to put her up, but it was full. At the courthouse a man who works with people without homes gave her something to eat, suggested places to try and did everything he could, then showed her where that evening’s city council meeting would be — and, of course, photographed the QR code so that he could follow the walk. In between she called at the police station and businesses downtown to talk about the registry, and kept looking for a bed, at a Presbyterian church and elsewhere downtown.
Then the city council. The board and Jay had helped her bring an old sample proclamation up to date, so she had something to hand across. When her turn came she said that her granddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia at a month old, that a stranger’s marrow saved her life, and that the council could make a difference by proclaiming a bone marrow awareness day. They were nodding before she finished.
Afterwards the woman who handles the proclamations said she had not understood quite how long a walk this was, and set about finding her a bed for the night. A police lieutenant and one of his officers sorted it out, with a voucher for a room at the Travelodge. She had a shower, washed her clothes by hand, slept well in a real bed, and in the morning someone put the clothes through a dryer for her.
It wasn’t like I had to do a hard sell; this was something that touched their hearts immediately.
- Distance walked
- 7.8 miles
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Sources
Local history and background reading for this stop.
- About Everett — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Everett station — checked Sep 5, 2026
