Biking from Seattle to Glacier National Park
Just a bit has happened since I biked across the country in the fall of 2019. However, I am finally off for another biking adventure. This time, I will be biking from Seattle Washington to Glacier National Park in Montana. I will try to post daily.
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Above, you can see my bike bag and suitcase in the car as I get ready to fly to Seattle. Already the trip has been a bit of an adventure. Yesterday afternoon, I received a text from Delta saying that my morning non-stop flight to Seattle was cancelled. I was being offered a trip with with a 5-hour layover and airline change in Newark. That left me scrambling since changing airlines is a big risk when bringing my bike. I was able to purchase the second to last ticket on Jet Blue's nonstop flight for today. Unfortunately, it does not arrive until 9:45pm pacific time. By the time I get get to my room in my hotel in Seattle, I expect it will be around 11:30. At that point, I will need to reassemble my bike so that it is ready to go at 7:30 tomorrow morning. It is going to be a long day.
Our trip will be 9 days excluding travel at the beginning and end of the trip. After 5 days of riding, we will have one rest day before completing the remaining 3 days. Overall, we should cover over 700 miles during our 8 riding days. Tomorrow, we will be shuttled to just northeast of Seattle in Snohomish where we begin riding north/northeast to Marblemount. This will be about 80 miles of mostly flat riding. However, on Tuesday, we will turn east and bike over the Cascade Mountains.
I will be joined on this trip by 3 fabulous friends: Doug, Jesse and Ruth. Doug is the husband of one of our bridesmaids, and Jesse and Ruth are my most frequent bicycling travel companions. The 4 of us have ridden together in the past multiple times, mostly throughout New England. However, in 2018, we all rented a house in Gordes France for a week. Here is a photo from that trip with Doug in the lead followed by Jesse the Ruth. I am looking forward to a fabulous trip
As a teaser to subscribe, I have signed up to bike across the country again starting next August. Assuming life does not throw us too many curveballs, Jesse and Ruth will be joining me as we bike a norther route from just west of Portland Oregon to Portland Maine.