A mon­tage of my won­der­ful bicy­cling and birth­day month. Start­ing in the upper left: Olympia, Washin­gon — Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton (a nice day of rid­ing with Scott) — Bend, Ore­gon and envi­rons — Chico, Cal­i­for­nia and near­by grain ele­va­tor — some around the world cycle tourists Quan and I met and vis­it­ed with as they passed through San­ta Bar­bara — Tom and I on one of our Sun­day morn­ing rides, my bike along the Rin­con — a stop at Lane Farms for Straw­ber­ries — cool Bud­da in Sum­mer­land — a stop at the end of wharf — Stack­y’s for a Fies­ta wrap (a reg­u­lar lunch des­ti­na­tion) — at the “end” of Gole­ta stop­ping for a recent­ly pur­chased Star­buck­’s reduced fat turkey McSand­wich and O.J. (A larg­er mon­tage can be viewed by click­ing on the one above)

Scott and I went on a spec­tac­u­lar 48 mile 5th of July bike ride today, most­ly skirt­ing around the shore of Lake Wash­ing­ton but also through UDUB, very fun. Temps in the 80’s, just like SoCal 🙂

I start gen­er­al­ly south tomor­row for Sat­ur­day in Sacra­men­to to see and cheer on Ralph at his foot race there. But first a north­ern jag up to North Cas­cades Nation­al Park (get­ting with­in about 15 miles of Cana­da) then maybe over to the Grand Coulee Dam before actu­al­ly start­ing the move SOUTH.

We rode by an inter­est­ing amphibi­ous plane lot/launching area.

The bike trail had a cou­ple of detours along the route. Here’s Scott com­ing down one with the very nice bike trough beside the stairs.

Scott and I with a very inter­est­ing sculp­ture along the way.

And at the point of need­ing to turn around after we had pressed our luck head­ing a cou­ple of miles down the signed as closed path.