2008 STP

July 12 & 13, 2008 Seattle To Portland bike event here is the gallery Odette agreed to ride the STP again this year, but she decided she wanted to do it on her own bike, not on the tandem.  I convinced Alex and Carrie to join us.  They had really only been riding for one …

Vancouver Island 2008

Rail Trail Memorial Day   Over a long Memorial Day weekend in 2008 Odette and I went to Vancouver Island and rode 200 miles to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. On a wet Friday morning we drove to Olympia and rode the Chehalis Western trail to the junction with Yelm – Tenino trail.  It rained …

Detours

So it’s interesting (although obvious, I guess) that the places where there are problems with navigation and with the quality of the trail are the places where for one reason or another it has been diverted from the old interurban railroad right-of-way.  Rail roadbeds make good bike trails.  When the roadbed gets cut by a …