Today we left Bob and Susan’s beautiful house in Anacortes and biked up to Bellingham after Bob gave us a ride up over the Big bridge.! It’s funny how the bridge only has a bike lane on one side !?! The road was hilly but had beautiful views of mountains in the distance including Mt Baker. We passed through small towns and men fishing in the river for salmon. We actually were on the MS bike route and there were lots of bikers on the road. We stopped st the Oyster. Bar along the way and met Paul for soup and salad. Delicious. Paul met us at the campground and dropped off our stuff and he then headed back to Seattle and then home. Mark and I set up our tents, met everyone and had a great dinner.
it was a great day!
We headed out today to tour the Island . Our first stop was Constitution Mountain. It was a fun curvy ascent by car- well fun for me, but not my passengers as I was driving! Great viewpoints although it is still smoky outside. We bought sandwiches and had a picnic at West beach resort. We stopped at pretty Doe Bay where they are having an Imagine music and arts festival this weekend. In the afternoon I had a massage by the sea! It was a great massage. She used tuning forks, steel bowls and hot rocks. Unusual but very effective!For dinner we went to Mijitas a local Mexican restaurant. We sat outside and since it was a little chilly they had gauchos that you could wear. I was nice and warm. Great dinner of Dungenous crab enchiladas!
Today we got up to very smoky conditions. We heard Sunrise, Wa on the east side of Mt Rainier was evVuated due to fires close by. So we headed out and spotted some deer ruining by. Maybe they smelt the smoke as well! We made it to Anacortes where we met Susan and Bob Cummings. They were are neighbors in Marlboro, Ma and Bob picked up our bikes from the local bike store where we had them shipped to. We had a wonderful lunch with them and then Mark and I biked to the ferry and met Paul and Janet who drove the car there. We had to bike as we don’t have a bike rack or room in the car for bikes. But it was good cause we tested our bikes out after being shipped. We had s wonderful ferry ride to Orcas Iskand. It was still smoky and couldn’t see in the distance but we passed many fishing boats, sailboats and pleasure boats. Once we arrived at Orcas Island Mark and I biked to our hotel which really tested me out as it was quite up hill. We stayed at the Outlook Inn which is a quaint hotel in Eastsound. At night we went to Random Restaurant which had Thai food and open mike for musicians. Quite the assortment of entertainers and Eliza Rickman was the opening act. She played the glockenspiel, piano, ukulele, kid piano, bells and other instruments which I had No idea what they were. She had a beautiful voice and is very whimsical. Look her up on Google. .It was a great day!
Today we drove to Mt Rainier and stopped along the way to see the beautiful waterfalls. Once we arrived at Paradise Inn, we quickly unpacked the car and headed up the trail to Myrtle Falls. At Paradise Inn there is no wifi, no tv and no cell service! It was us and nature at its best! It was a great day.
Today we took a tour with Argosy tours on Lake Elliot and saw many house boats as well as expensive estates. It was a lovely cruise in the beautiful lake and we cruised up to Lake Washington and saw the 520 floating bridge. After the tour and a bite to eat we headed to zones Zmarjet fur a tour of the “gum wall ” and ate in s balcony restaurant. We then headed to the Smith Tower for more amazing views.. another great day…
We took the Shutter tour around Seattle and to Snoqualmie Falls. In Seattle we saw the 2 large sport stadiums, art museums, the man hammering statue, athe Troll under the bridge, and great views of Washington Lake and the view at Kerry Park. We had cheesy lunch from Beechers. We took a phenomenal bike ride to Columbia Tower. And saw a great sunset from there. Great day!!
We arrive in Seattle and head out to see the sites
