Twelve days remaining before our journey begins and it has been a long route getting to this moment. Past experience and knowledge helps one adapt, however, both are products of the past and can not function in the present as each moment is a new experience…

Deborah and I met at a bicycle shop in 1993 and we have been riding together ever since…

The final two days of our journey…

We had a couple wonderful story filled zero days with a Warm Showers host. The inspiration to this entire ride was to visit Westport Winery and pick up our wine. We finally arrived on day nine.

The day before we had been musing over whether or not to get a hotel room on the trip.

In a few days a heatwave would hit the Pacific Northwest and we were riding towards it on hot pavement, road tar melting and popping under our tires…

After visiting Westport Winery we were impressed with their fruit wines and joined their wine club…

We were invited to go snowshoeing with a very good friend to a snow hut managed by Mount Tahoma Trail Association (MTTA). They have two yurts and two huts - High Hut and SnowBowl Hut. We went to SnowBowl Hut…

For many, there are areas of great life changing importance. Lake Crescent in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula is such a place for me and Deborah. It has been the location of many firsts during our currently 26 years together…

Deborah decided she was going to ski today so last night we made preparations and this morning joined commuter traffic for a short while. I missed our turn and google navigation rerouted us along country roads we had not been on before…

Many have been here before and I wonder throughout the millennia how many footfalls have etched their memory upon the sand, only to be erased by waves and winds in time…

The date was set, now all we had to do was wait and watch the weather predictions. At first it was going to be cold with possible snow, then some rain but chances of sun…