So, we've been staying at this beautiful communal house in Seattle that's been functioning for thirty years or something. The five of us were reunited for the weekend, but sadly, Jon is going back to oly for a hot minute, while the rest of us are off to Leaveworth. We were here mostly to perform at Folklife, which it turns out we were all pretty unprepared for except Jon, who managed to make something ridiculously above minimum wage contact juggling. There were way too many people at the festival, and way too many people in this city for most of us, but it did mean lots of discarded and deliciously disgusting festival food. So, we're off again... as soon as we can get ourselves and our bikes together because it's perhaps three o clock and we still have fifty miles to go...
Jean
29 May 2007
27 May 2007
Olympia to Bellingham
We biked up to Seattle catching the Inter-urban trail somewheres around Pullalyp. Along the way we noticed the odwalla dumpster and so decided to set up camp. It was a good first day. 78 miles.
When we got to Seattle we decided it would be best to avoid downtown as much as possible. After going straight up a hill with an angle of about 80 degrees we found a cop and asked for directions. He told us to go to downtown where we could catch a bike trail that follows the water front and avoids all the hills. So we went back down the hill, found the bike path, had a beautiful ride around south of the fremount bridge, got lost trying to find the fremount bridge, found the bridge got lost trying to find our way out, found a bike shop and a map (maps are really helpful things that we didnt think of bringing with us) and proceeded to that Sr 99 to Mukilteo. After about 5 hours we were able to cover the 20 miles from our campsite to the ferry. Caught the ferry to whidbey and bike until we were so exhausted we were about to pass the hell out on the side of the road. Luckily we met a nice man named Thom who lived on a beautiful piece of land in between the highway and the water. It was gorgeous and Thom was extremely nice and helped us out in ways i'll never express. 50 miles
This morning we biked the rest of the way to bellingham to find out Micah's cousin lives quite a ways south of the city and had to turn around. The house is again gorgeous and right on Lake Sammish so of course as soon as we got here we had to spend the rest of the day kayaking around the like. 38miles.
so there you go, 159.78 miles down. 150,089 to go.
-muffin
When we got to Seattle we decided it would be best to avoid downtown as much as possible. After going straight up a hill with an angle of about 80 degrees we found a cop and asked for directions. He told us to go to downtown where we could catch a bike trail that follows the water front and avoids all the hills. So we went back down the hill, found the bike path, had a beautiful ride around south of the fremount bridge, got lost trying to find the fremount bridge, found the bridge got lost trying to find our way out, found a bike shop and a map (maps are really helpful things that we didnt think of bringing with us) and proceeded to that Sr 99 to Mukilteo. After about 5 hours we were able to cover the 20 miles from our campsite to the ferry. Caught the ferry to whidbey and bike until we were so exhausted we were about to pass the hell out on the side of the road. Luckily we met a nice man named Thom who lived on a beautiful piece of land in between the highway and the water. It was gorgeous and Thom was extremely nice and helped us out in ways i'll never express. 50 miles
This morning we biked the rest of the way to bellingham to find out Micah's cousin lives quite a ways south of the city and had to turn around. The house is again gorgeous and right on Lake Sammish so of course as soon as we got here we had to spend the rest of the day kayaking around the like. 38miles.
so there you go, 159.78 miles down. 150,089 to go.
-muffin
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