Saturday, Sep 28 2013 We planned this trip last winter to combine a visit with family in Portland and a cycling vacation somewhere new. We picked the San Juan islands to start our trip and planned to cycle there for 5 days and then drive down to Portland. We decided to go at the end of September to catch lower …
Exploring San Juan north in the rain
Delightful start to the day with a wonderful breakfast at the B&B. We were all geared up and in Friday Harbor right at 10 to get the bike at Island Bicycles. They were running a bit behind so we spent some time in the gallery admiring a varied and high quality assortment of artworks by local artists. I especially like …
Exploring south San Juan in the rain
Another fabulous breakfast fueled our start in some pretty heavy rain this morning. We were both bundled up and hoping that, like yesterday, it would let up to just drizzle. The plan originally was to ride back over Beaverton Valley Road (which we had turned on to yesterday coming back from English Camp) and then take West Side Road down …
The sun came out!
Blue skies and beautiful sun greeted us as we loaded up the bike for our trip to Orcas Island. This was our first ride with the rental bike loaded. We were making the short trip from the Kirk House to the ferry and following directions that Tom had googled when there in front of us was a nasty steep but …
A lazy day on the farm
Cold and raining on and off so we are enjoying a lazy day here at Pebble Cove. We started the morning with local coffee, granola and OJ that Pebble Cove provided and some yogurt that we had picked up at the marina store yesterday. Here’s a picture from last night cooking dinner; small but functional. We ventured out for a …
Biking for beer!
Woke up to a beautiful morning; we finally have a gorgeous fall day for biking. Matt was out playing with Althea bright and early and then he and I went and gathered eggs from the hen house for breakfast. The goats came out for a morning stroll around the lawn as well We took our time with a hearty breakfast …
the long trip to Portland
Our final morning at Pebble Cove, we packed our bags and Tom took the food scraps down to feed the goats. We ran into this little guy who was very happy and chatty Thanks to Matt and Lara, Tom and I hopped on an unloaded bike around 9 and rode into Orcas Village. There was one killer climb on the …