Category: Washington

Deep in the heat of the Columbia Gorge we had planned to sleep without the rainfly on the tent. But then, for the second night in a row, a strong sunset wind had come up out of nowhere. And this one seemed even stronger than the night before, maybe steady at 30mph and cresting higher.…

The strong wind that picked up near sunset last night continued all night long, and the noise of it blowing and flapping the tent’s rainfly made the noise of the also-all-night sprinkler a bit irrelevant. In contrast to the 45F temperatures we had greeting us the last two mornings, we were up to 57F this…

We had learned when picking up groceries last night at The Hitching Post in Easton, that they also served as a small diner (with the single attendant impressively managing food prep and retail purchases simultaneously). So we decided to do biscuits-and-gravy (and eggs) breakfast there rather than normal camp breakfast. At the edge of town…

Rett thought she heard a car last night and then bikes moving, so was concerned whether or not our bikes were still sitting outside our tent. I knew immediately that this was 100% a dream, since the nearest road was miles away. So I was happy to laze in bed together until 9am, more than…

Today we restart bicycle travel, heading east from the Seattle area towards Idaho. Way back in September, two weeks before we stopped riding, we booked a VRBO apartment near the center of Seattle for January 3rd to April 11th (in between, we would spend two months staying with Rett’s dad in upstate New York, and…