Interesting reading about this ride and people's impressions since I still consider myself a Vancouverite (I have a lot of personal stuff there at our 2nd home and bikes).

With my partner we have cycled to Seattle and from Seattle in separate trips. My comments over the years:

I loved the Chuckanut area. etc.

The ride route took you over the Golden Ears Bridge from Maple Ridge, etc. .....I was on the construction engineering project for that bridge. There is a story behind that bridge: http://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/...ount-thy-ways/

Your ride along the Adanac bike route is a heavily used bike route which if you weren't super tired, might have noticed there were large outdoor art murals including 2 different murals that have a cyclist in their designs. You would have cycled over some pavement mosaic art on memorialize long gone salt water creeks..

Yea, sure Vancouver is not rural cycling in downtown, but your Vancouver city route shows off the local mountains and ocean water that surround the city....with no major highway running through downtown by the waterfront (unlike Seattle).

If the route was designed instead to go onto Ontario St. ...I would suggest strong that the Cascade Bike Club..it's a nice quiet residential street which people could drop by Queen Elizabeth Park with a bike saddle sculpture, past a new community garden (Mount Pleasant) with bike wheel trellises, street takes you straight by Olympic Village bike route and around Science World geodesic dome.