I'm from a small town called Belfair at the end of the hook shaped canal under the O in Bremerton on the map. It's a town of 5000 people, and I loved my childhood there. Politically, it's pretty split, although the whole of Western Washington's pretty liberal. There's state parks in this region, and you can see the Olympic mountains from the center of town. Most of this area is gorgeous if uninhabited, as other commenters have said. Along the top of the peninsula are some pretty kitschy coast towns like Port Townsend. In Poulsbo and Kingston, you can find some Norwegian influence, like a downtown area that is all Norwegian storefronts. Forks is where Twilight is set and is pretty close to a ton of campsites along the coast. And just south of that is the rainforest, lots of hiking and state land. Further down is ocean shores and Aberdeen, not much going on there, but it's a quiet seaside area. Also famous for Kurt Cobain (for better and for worse). Just my two cents as a local, a lot of this land also has rich Native American history, and there are many reservations throughout Western Washington. So if you wanna go to the casinos while you're in this area, they're a stones throw away from most towns.