Tag Archives: Washington State

I was able to fol­low the Hood Canal for another cou­ple of hours, pass­ing through the small com­mu­ni­ties of Lil­li­waup and Hood­sport, before I headed away from the water and onto the back­roads of this part of south­ern Wash­ing­ton State towards the State of Ore­gon. Along this route I came across the only signs of […]

I awoke in the dorm room which I shared with two oth­ers to the unex­pected beauty the north-west tip of the Olympic Penin­sula. I took a short walk around the park, whose his­tory is wholly related to war­fare. It started out as an early-warning out­post to pro­tect the first set­tlers in the 1850s from north­ern Indians […]

If yesterday’s down­pour had sig­nalled the end of sum­mer, today’s weather gave an indi­ca­tion of the Indian sum­mer to come. I headed off into blue skies and per­fect cycling tem­per­a­tures of about 20 degrees Centi­grade towards Whid­bey Island. Every­thing had dried overnight except my shoes and it didn’t take long for the sun to dry […]

Route Map View Cycling Wash­ing­ton State, USA in a larger map Key By bike By plane By ferry By train By bus   Cyclists who cross the bor­der at Sumas are con­sid­ered to be pedes­tri­ans so I wheeled my bike into the cus­toms area. The offi­cer who dealt with me was par­tic­u­larly unfriendly but very […]