Monday June 15, 2015

We had a great ride out of Seattle, I was expecting it to be really busy. We found a street with a cycle lane on it, unfortunately it was going in the wrong direction. We headed back to First Avenue and headed up and out of Town.

We passed the Space Needle, the Space Needle was built in 1962, quite impressive.

Yesterday, these Duck Boats were doing tours of the downtown area and were really annoying. How many times those poor drivers had to sing YMCA or Night Fever and get people to do silly things on the Boat would have driven me insane.

We found the river trail which connected to the Interurban Trail. Unfortunately for us, we missed the bridge that we were supposed to take (Fremont Bridge) and had to make a U-turn, this added 4 ks to our ride.

The Interurban Trail takes you on quieter urban streets and then heads north out of the City thorough various Town’s that have connected the route through their Town. Almost 50 kms of safe cycling. The best part of the trail was after the Seattle City limits.

When we got to Everett, we couldn’t find the trail that our warmshowers host told us about, but we did see the first sign for Vancouver!

We eventually found the trail, after calling Jack for better directions and another detour of 4 kms. We had to merge with Highway 204, taking our lives and bikes in hand we waited for about 10 minutes before we could get a break in the traffic and run across the road. After surviving that crossing and heading up a hill, we realized we had to cross another busy road to get on to the street where Jack lives.

We set up the tent and then chatted to Jack and Kathy. Kathy does some wonderful quilt work. Jack and Kathy cater the Adventure Cycling Associations supported tours. They were busy getting ready for their first tour this summer. They are heading out this week-end and Kathy was busy baking, it smelled really good – lucky cyclists on that trip.