Many people bike the Pacific Coast. Some start in Vancouver, some start in Seattle. Some travel along the Puget Sound, others go through the Olympic Forest. But (mostly) all of us end up on the beautiful Oregon coast. Things were different when I got to Oregon. The hills and the ocean met with stunning effects, […]
Tag: bike travel
Washington’s ghost mountain
Washington’s mountain gem is Mount Rainier. It is a massive 14,411 foot volcano visible from Seattle, and many other Washington cities, on a clear day. What makes it especially spectacular is that it towers over the rest of the Cascades range, so much so, that sometimes it just looks like a huge lone mountain. I […]
The San Juan Islands and- what is a hiker/biker campsite?
On July 13 I left Victoria, British Columbia to return to Washington via the San Juan Islands. It was heavily debated (in my head) whether I should enter Washington via Port Angeles or via the islands; each would take me on a different rout through Washington. I heard that the Islands were a cyclist’s paradise, […]
The best British Columbia transportation
But hey, Canada, don’t worry about the customs thing. You more than made up for it with the ferries. West Vancouver to Langdale Earl’s Cove to Saltery Bay Crofton to Salt Spring Island Salt Spring to Swartz Bay
Local travel: biking the Katy Trail
Over Memorial Day Weekend I crossed something off my bucket list that had been on there for a while: I biked the Katy Trail. The Katy Trail is a rails to trails project–one of the most successful “rails to trails” projects in the U.S. in fact. The MKT railroad began in St. Louis and made […]
Anne Foster 