We've Only Just Begun

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Comments on this blog are always welcome, if only to confirm that somebody actually reads it. Unfortunately most comments get posted anonymously; if you prefer it that way fine but, if not, please give me a clue who you are.  A big Thank You to the person who suggested an alternate title for yesterday's blog...I obviously can't use it but it made me laugh! (I suspect I know who you are).

This morning a sizeable farewell committee formed in the hotel lobby.  Members of local PD support and advocacy groups had an early start to meet us for some words of encouragement and to give us a cheer.  Crucially they also brought cookies and flapjack...they clearly understand the way to a cyclist's heart.  The riders got quite a send-off which they absolutely deserved!  There had been some talk of a local news channel coming along for some footage but clearly something more newsworthy won out...maybe a kitten got stuck up a tree.

Over the next days and weeks we have many more encounters with well wishers planned, tomorrow we have a newspaper reporter meeting us for lunch.

Leaving Seattle we have to take a ferry across Puget Sound.  Simple enough you might think.  Somehow they managed to load all of us, and several dozen vehicles, on a ferry that wasn't going to our destination. Once they had offloaded everyone, loaded the correct vehicles, vacated the berth and then docked the right boat we were considerably behind the curve.  So it was nearly noon when we left the ferry and set about doing 50 lumpy miles.  Everyone rose to the challenge and they were in the hotel by 5pm.

We are in Shelton, site of the great 2023 room fire last time I was here.  We are staying in a different, and hopefully less combustible, hotel.  Before the trip I researched the Google ratings for all our hotels and this one is 1 from bottom....it shows.

Must be beer time.

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