Tomorrow Karen arrives from Iowa and we will begin our journey. Hopefully I will get her bike put back together tonight so we'll only have tiny problems to deal with and can spend the rest of the day relaxing and trying to figure out what we forgot.
For me this is a trial run for hopefully longer self contained rides in the future. I'm already fairly familiar with the route having cycled many parts of it in the past but I have never carried my home (tent, sleeping bag and pad), my kitchen (stove, fuel, pans and dishes), my bathroom (soap, shampoo, toothbrush and towel), my closet (clothes for riding - cold, wet, hot, dry and relaxing) and my garage (tools and repair items) before, so that challenge still awaits both of us.
Sunday we'll be taking a ferry ride to the real start of our ride and follow the edge of the penisula, mostly on highway 101 around the Olympic Mountains. I am hoping we get a dry and warm week of riding. The Olympic Mountains average between 120 and 167 inches of rain a year with Mount Olympus getting up to 200 inches per year. While this is the driest part of the year, all that rain has to fall out of the sky sometime.
Click here for a map of our route.
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