Hee, here's the profile for the entire ride I did today - less than 25 miles but still, a good shake-down. I never would have thought I could lug 50 pounds over flat terrain, much less this. Must have been all those rides up Diablo trying desperately to keep up with V., Kim and SadieKate




About our tour -

Since it's our very first tour we're really taking it easy, we'll be staying at B&Bs and rental cabins, and won't be travelling more than 40 miles or so between our accomodations with the full loads.

We're driving up to Pt. Townsend WA on Memorial Day weekend, leaving our truck there and heading out with our bikes that Tuesday to Sequim, which is only about 30 miles away. We'll be staying in a cabin for one night, spitting distance from one of our favorite restaurants out there, called the 3 Crabs (uh, we plan to do a lot of eating to counteract all the riding ) .

The next morning we'll ride another 30 miles or so to Pt. Angeles WA, where we'll board a ferry to Victoria on Vancouver Island. The B&B we're staying in Victoria is all of about 3 miles from the ferry dock, heh. Over the next few days we'll do some day trips around the Saanich Penninula, go out to Butchart Gardens one day, that sort of thing. Vancouver Island appears to have some really nice cycling so I'm really looking forward to that - I'll probably regret having us stay for only 3 days there!

After 3 days on Vancouver Island we'll take another ferry to the San Juan Islands. We're staying for 3 days in a cabin on Orcas Island, which will be our base from which we'll bop around the San Juans via ferry with our bikes.

After that we'll take a ferry to Anacortes and go down Fidalgo Island, cross the Deception Pass bridge and bop down Whidbey Island. We'll either stay the night somewhere on Whidbey Island or go down the length of Whidbey and hop on another ferry back to Pt. Townsend that same day - depends on what we're up for that day.

All together our trip around Puget Sound will be either 8 or 9 days. Thanks to all the ferry connections we won't be putting in all that many miles with the full loads between our accomodations, but hopefully we'll get some nice rides in-between.

- jo "tour guide" bob