Seattle: Planning in advance (for once!)

[mimitabby]

So now all we need is a time and a meeting place? I personally would vote
for 9am at Gasworks park; but I am only 1 voice here.
mimi

[KnottedYet]

My sorry little buns won't make it from Gasworks to the Red Hook brewery... and there must be beer!

Hey, I could make it from Gasworks to Hales Ales Brewpub! (that's what, 1 mile? 2 miles? hee hee )

[climbingbiker]

Ugh - I only have one commitment so far in September and it's on the 16th! That's too bad. Hopefully I will be able to catch you all on the next outing.

Doreen

[mimitabby]

My sorry little buns won't make it from Gasworks to the Red Hook brewery... and there must be beer!

Hey, I could make it from Gasworks to Hales Ales Brewpub! (that's what, 1 mile? 2 miles? hee hee )

Knotted, i don't drink alcoholic beverages so i have no idea where any breweries are except pyramid, which is near my office.

So pick a place, and pick a start place and time; you're sort of the ride leader anyway.

[LaBiker]

September 16 at 9am works. I'll meet wherever everyone else concurs. Since I live on the Eastside, Marymoor or Bothell are convenient starting points, but I'm sure willing to drive and then ride.

[KnottedYet]

I gotta confer with Salsa, cuz she knows how to get to the wineries/brewery/food.

I'm thinking Bothell (long ride) at 9:00, hook up with shorter ride (at Marymoor) around 10:30 and ride to lunch together.

I'm SLOW. And I do mean SLOW.

Salsa, how far is it from Marymoor to food?

(did I mention I'm lazy, too?)

[mimitabby]

by Bothell do you mean start near the mall with the bookshop? (third place books?) a lot of us will have to drive to there.

You're not that slow! I think we're going to be a good group.

and there's a Subway shop right IN Marymoor park, I ate there 2 weeks ago.

[Kitsune06]

*snifflesnuff* I don't think there's a single day of the week where I can make a 4hr drive to/from a ride... but maybe if we met up somewhere between Seattle and Portland someday...

[salsabike]

I gotta confer with Salsa, cuz she knows how to get to the wineries/brewery/food.

I'm thinking Bothell (long ride) at 9:00, hook up with shorter ride (at Marymoor) around 10:30 and ride to lunch together.

I'm SLOW. And I do mean SLOW.

Salsa, how far is it from Marymoor to food?

(did I mention I'm lazy, too?)

It's not far at all from Marymoor to Red Hook Brewery---6-7 miles. Any meeting place at all on the BG/Samm River trail will work for me, so if people have strong preferences, state them strongly, OK? Maybe the easiest way to do it is "It's REALLY inconvenient for me to go to..." wherever. And we'll meet at the place that works best for most people. It's about 13.5 miles from Logboom Park in Kenmore to Marymoor, fyi---not far at all.

[KnottedYet]

Kitsune - start thinking up places to meet. I'm up for it! Halfway is good.

[mimitabby]

It's not far at all from Marymoor to Red Hook Brewery---6-7 miles. Any meeting place at all on the BG/Samm River trail will work for me, so if people have strong preferences, state them strongly, OK? Maybe the easiest way to do it is "It's REALLY inconvenient for me to go to..." wherever. And we'll meet at the place that works best for most people. It's about 13.5 miles from Logboom Park in Kenmore to Marymoor, fyi---not far at all.

Then why don't we meet at Logboom park then?
(Mimi, wanting to nail down a start location)

[Quillfred]

Logboom is easy for me.

I just did a search on fun places off Sammamish trail and they include:

" I took a quick break at an upscale cluster of liquor, lodging and dining where the trail intersects Woodinville's Northeast 145th Street. It includes Willows Lodge, a luxury hotel; the venerable Herbfarm restaurant and the more casual Barking Frog bistro; the Columbia Winery, Redhook Brewery and, just to the south, the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery." Seattle PI

The Barking Frog has a great menu--not sure if they would be hospitable towards sweating cyclists though. Redhook has a nice menu too.

Quillfred

[mimitabby]

I don't know anything about Barking Frog, but we've never been refused service or even had waiters look at us with askance because of being in sweaty bike clothes; and we've gone to a lot of cafes and restaurants with sweat dripping off our faces!

[colby]

" I took a quick break at an upscale cluster of liquor, lodging and dining where the trail intersects Woodinville's Northeast 145th Street. It includes Willows Lodge, a luxury hotel; the venerable Herbfarm restaurant and the more casual Barking Frog bistro; the Columbia Winery, Redhook Brewery and, just to the south, the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery." Seattle PI

Mmm, herbfarm. In fact, it all sounds good. I need to move back to Seattle... sigh

[KnottedYet]

C'mon over the hills, Colby!

Saturday, Sept 16th. We'll be meeting at Logboom at 9:00, proceeding to Marymoor on the bike trail (anyone want to meet us there to have a shorter ride?) and then riding to lunch.

Parking for Logboom is plentiful and varied, some along the roads in the neighborhood near the trail/park, some parking lot at the park, some farther west in the Lake Forest Park shopping center where Third Place Books is.

I've not been to any of those Woodinville area restaurants. Went to Red Hook 20 years ago when it was in Fremont. but that probably doesn't count, eh?

I like inexpensive food. And good beer. (the beer can be expensive, 's ok with me)

(And I like to ride sweep. Cuz I'm slow anyway.)