2023 – Amsterdam

Between April 16th and May 8th Odette and Jerry rode the tandem from Amsterdam to Bruges (and back) and then explored Amsterdam for a week   Holland is flat.  Flatter than Berlin.     After our trip to Mallorca, Odette admitted that touring on individual bikes wasn’t realistic.  She went looking for someplace flat for …

iPad

In 2019, on a trip to Corsica, I rushed through security in CDG and left my iPad at the conveyor.  At the time I wrote this: We caught another early morning cab to the airport where Delta checkin was surprisingly organized and efficient.  We sat at the gate for an hour and then boarded (exit …

Elevation

  other years   year total Elevation 2024 2023 13,717 720,518 2022 13,140 707,244 2021 15,056 848,186 2020 14,200 813,684 2019 16,002 877,974 2018 14.058 746,535 2017 12,894 652,871 2016 12,621 537,638 2015 12,799 664,833 2014 10.483 544,530  

Recent Rides 2022

Other Years   12/31 – Fremont to Burke Gilman to 520 trail to 154th to Old Redmond / 70th to Lakeview to  Lake Washington Loop Route  (clockwise) to the  520 trail.    Montlake to  Burke Gilman to University to campus pkway / 40th to 5th to 42nd to Latona to 44th to Meridian to 50th to Phinney to 59th / 60th and home …

Lummi Island

On May 22 – 25, 2021,  Jerry and Odette rode from home in Seattle to La Conner and on to Lummi Island, then over to Whidby Island and eventually back home I rode a lot during the pandemic, moving at bicycle speed outdoors when everyone else was quarantined  seemed pretty safe and it gave me …