Just before sunset, I got into Marblemount. It was a nice ride, although it was a little longer than I wanted due to a wrong turn and some extra hills. No matter, it was a pretty day with a tailwind most of the time. Drivers are polite and seem less redneck-y than other places. I am staying at an RV park tent site for $5.00/night. There are showers and wifi. There is one power outlet for the whole campground, so I got the office lady to charge my phone. The other electronics will probably die tomorrow. Three other bike tourists are here also. Two guys in their fifties from Minnesota who took the Amtrak out and are headed back, and one young guy who looks like Che Guevara and is headed to Mexico. He seemed like perhaps he was finding himself. A grocery store a ways back was selling their lunchtime sandwiches for $1 each. I got a pulled pork and a battered cod. Both were excellent, although I didn't get to eat them until a couple of hours later when I pulled into my campsite.
I am at the foot of North Cascades national park. The jagged, glaciated mountains stick up almost vertically to the east. Tomorrow I am probably going to go for a short ride. It seems like a choice between a really long ride and a short one. Since it seems like it will be a really pretty place, I will take my time.
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I am at the foot of North Cascades national park. The jagged, glaciated mountains stick up almost vertically to the east. Tomorrow I am probably going to go for a short ride. It seems like a choice between a really long ride and a short one. Since it seems like it will be a really pretty place, I will take my time.
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Picnic Point SP in Mukilteo
Putting the rig together
Grand sendoff from Bellingham
Outside Bellingham
That would be interesting
Getting close to N. Cascades
May have to go to the store here and get some stuff
