HA! Kat didn't you hear the news. we might get nice weather this weekend! I think Moni is skipping Whidbey, after Buchart.
Traffic is getting bad here already, and the best she could do would be walk her bike across the bridge : )
So to all tourists, PLEASE note those cables mean stay on the sidewalks and quit running in front of my car because it scares me that I might bounce you off the bridge !

Kathy! Hi! I can't tell you how many YEARS it's been
since I've been up that way!
Traffic... bad... all ... over! Dang!

Bouncing pedestrians off the bridge, now THAT would
be a fun video game! ahahahhahaaaa
Yes, this weekend is going to be great. Last week
was really nice down here.

Deception pass bridge... hmmm you are going to make me look and see, where it is aren't you. Ok, I looked. Nope, you don't have to bounce me off the bridge, I am not going that way. However, I am going over the Hood Canal, on 104.

I am flying to Seattle on the 27. of July. Then ride to Canada, via Bainbridge island.

I do have a journal going already.

Here is a link that might be useful: my journal

Last week I was coming home from the "big city" ( Mt Vernon) and some idiot actually passed another car going onto the bridge, I don't know who was more scared, me or the car he was aiming at! Almost as bad as the guy in the 5th wheeler who didn't secure his shade canopy and it fell down and knocked down a guy on the sidewalk during Oyster Run. All he could ask me after I went running to him was "am I bleeding" ( Well..duh..)
Hate the bridge!!
Enough hijacking your post! Sorry!

OH MY GOODNESS I have since picked myself up from the floor after opening that link!!!!! I swear my heart hit my toes at the very first glimpse of what the pics were!!!!!!!!!!!

Sandy
BRIDGE HATER Size>

I have it book marked... thanks Moni!

have you seen this site? I checked out this map
and then you can download the google earth of the
map. it is really neat!

Here is a link that might be useful: biking from BC to mexico

sandy you havn't see anything yet till you cross the mackinac bridge in mi..they offer drivers to help you cross! and it has been known to close in bad weather...you can see thru it on the road bed!!!!

my other keep my eyes shut, is the bridge from san diego to coronado island...dh used to drive in the right lane and lol at me! it's very high to allow navy ships access...

LOL, at Sandy... but then I know her bridge fear. I WILL ride across the Golden Gate Bridge, if I make it that far that is. :)

Kat, I am aware of the mapmyride site, but am not a member, and don't use it.

I have the book: Bicycling the pacific coast, by Vicky Spring and Tom Kirkendalll. Mel has the bike maps from Adventure Cycling. Between those, we should be able to find the most scenic routes. :)

Yes Susan...my sister was nice enough to tell me ALL ABOUT that bridge!!!!!!!! Nope, there are NOT enough GOOD drugs to get me across that one!!!!!!!

One year we were all set to go to South Padre Island to visit my brother & SIL.....until I looked at a map and asked HOW we got there...."by the bridge, of course"! NO WAY!!! I have trouble with small ones, and it isn't all in my head either!!!!!! LOL

I am so used the to Pass, I just except someone to do something stupid on it..but the Tacoma Narrows Bridge makes me scared, and I refuse to drive across it *EVER *

I just went across the Tacoma Narrows. I like the new one. Just hold your breath! hahahaha

Susan,
Before they built the Coronado Bay Bridge there used to be a ferry there,and every weekend while DH was aboard ship,i'd have to drive him from Oceanside down to the ferry.I'm so glad he retired before they finished that bridge as there is no way in He** i would ever drive across that~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I hate bridges!! I still live in O'side and still have never crossed that bridge,nor do i ever intend to.
Kathi

LOL Jenn! The only thing that bothers me
when I drive across them, is that I can't LOOK! I can't site see! lol

Moni! You get to do the Astoria~Megler bridge. That one should be fun. Part in the air, part floating!

Well, Moni....I just traveled down the coast highway from Mid Washington to Brookings Oregon. (Sorry in a Winnebago) And I held my breath while riding along the "Oregon Bicycle Path" in far too many places....just thinking of you! I hope, I hope, I hope your group is big enough to tell those BIG motorhomes to make way for bicycles!. Too, too scary. I will be checking your journal to see how you do. (The southern part is really beautiful!)

Sandy I would cross a million bridges before I would ride a bike down the Pacific coast and get bullied by those Winnebagos. Moni, at least bicycling across the Golden Gate is safe because you have a railing between you and the cars. A few years ago a cousin took me across the Coronado Bridge in San Diego and we encountered several stopped police cars. They had just talked a jumper down from the bridge.

You mean a bike lane like this one along Hood Canal?

K, ladies, I am off. Will ride the Oklahoma FreeWheel starting Sunday morning. Need to get my beauty sleep.

See ya, when I get back next week Saturday.

Moni