Arsen's Tour

One thing I was sure of as I rolled out to a ride beginning at 6 PM in Seattle tonight, it was going to get dark before we finished.  I was also fairly certain it would rain.  Friend Arsen had posted a ride for tonight as he does every Tuesday and Thursday evening.  I rode to the Gas Works Park starting location. I had the route on my gps, but failed to start the recording function before pedaling.  We sometimes were off a block or two on parallel streets, but we pretty much followed this route.

Arsen was cognizant of my need to "maintain my blog" and kept pointing out photo ops and bits of local lore.
As we rode by Lake View Cemetery he note that Bruce Lee was buried there.  We were going to get a picture of his headstone, but alas, with a 6 PM start, and visiting hours ending at 6 PM, we didn't make it.

Tom, Bob, and Arsen

We chatted a bit about how a ride should be planned to visit famous people's final resting place. Jimi Hendrix is buried in Renton, and Kurt Cobain's ashes were scattered near Olympia.  For tonight this was as close as we'd get to visiting any dead people.  So we pedaled on and shifted our focus toward the living.

We neared the Seattle Asian Art Museum and stopped for a photo of the Black Hole Sun.  This is rumored to be the art behind Soundgarden's song.

We continued on our way past the old Museum of Science and Industry site.  I recognized that since I've kayaked from there many times.  We crossed over the Montlake Bridge and on up through University of Washington and Ravenna Park.  It was about this time that we turned on lights.

We cruised past Green Lake and continued west to overlook Shilshole Bay. We rolled on through the Ballard neighborhood then back into Fremont.  Before long we were back in Gasworks, and through the entire ride not a drop of rain fell.  I've heard that others in the area weren't so lucky.

It sounded like the others were going out for a bit of post ride snackage, but I decided I'd best get back up Queen Ann hill.

Good ride, good folks!



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