After spending some wonderful time with friends in Seattle and Tacoma we are back on the road again. We left Tacoma on Wednesday for Quilcene, on the Hood Canal. Taking the long way around we arrived at John & Shelly's after 158 km. We spent a nice evening visiting with them, last visit was 3 years ago when we rode our bikes from Tacoma to Anchorage.
Next day was a hilly 85km to Sequim to see Scott Erikson, a friend and also a member of the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group. He has a great spot just north and west of Sequim near the ocean. Early yesterday, Friday, morning he took us to Port Angeles and we took the ferry to Victoria, BC. 120 km later we were at Doug & Evelyn's in Nanaimo - a much hiller ride (at least the first 50km) than I remembered.
We'll spend the next week or so here on Vancouver Island visiting friends before we leave for the mainland. Plan right now is to ride east in Canda along the US border and drop down into western Idaho, thru McCall and then work our way back to Tacoma. All in all a 2000 mile wind-down from Asia.
It is sooo refreshing to be able to ride and enjoy the clean air, clean water, blue skies, the absence of honking horns and often just enjoy the quiet. We are happy with our decision to return home when we did and are looking forward to the late summer/fall of 2013 when we hope to ride Central Asia. Short trip and small geographical area.
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