Day 7 - Winthrop, WA

After spending most of the first day in Seattle in an alley building our bikes, we left town for Bainbridge on a ferry. The view off the back of the boat is the city shrinking in the distance and the view to the front is the peaks of the Olympic mountains. We rode over the island to the Kitsap penninsula and up over Whidbey Island to Anacortes. We dipped our bikes in the harbor in Anacortes before setting out on the Adventure Cycling Northern Tier route with the expectation of dipping them again in the Atlantic in New York. Two days out from Anacortes we hit our first two mountain passes up to 5500 feet. The scenery was amazing and there was still snow on the ground. We spent the night near the top and rode down into the old west town of Winthrop today. Tomorrow we will be topping Loup Loup pass and then down into the Okanogan valley. The ride has been beautiful so far and there is plenty more to come.

tailwinds and toeclips!

Seattle

After some delays at the airport, Matt, Kelley, Alex, Michael and Amos made it with gear in tow to the Green Tortoise Hostel across from Pike Place Market. We met Annalisa and Ben there, along with their parents, then made it out for a late sushi dinner and check in with our bikes, boxed up and tucked away in the basement. We just enjoyed a free breakfast of waffles, eggs, fruit and brownies and bike assembly and our last trekker, Kate, are in our near future.