But before I could partake in that treat I had to ride a few miles. I joke with my friend Julie, that no matter how long her ride, it always takes all day. Today was no exception.
We started of with a ride to the Fremont neighborhood for breakfast. Having taken in a few calories we pedaled off to Golden Gardens. We arrived there and spent a bit of time pedaling around the area.
It was a beautiful day.
We had enjoyed a bit of a tail wind on the way out there so on the way back we had to work a bit harder. The views were still nice as we pedaled back toward the Chittenden Locks.
We arrived at the locks and wandered through the grounds, not that we planned to do too much sight seeing, but rather that it makes a good way to get across the ship canal. Being a federal facility, there are more rules regarding entry than one really has time to read.
But one of the rules is that bikes must be walked, so walk our bikes we did.
We got to the locks and played tourist for a bit, watching a few vessels pass. Sailors piloting craft ranging from 100 ft barges with cranes mounted, to kayaks were using the locks today.
After a bit of lollygagging around we continued on to the Elliot Bay Trail.
We worked our way toward Alki Beach. We stopped at Jack Block Park to take a look around.
We had a bit of headwind as we pedaled the last stretch toward Alki Beach. Unlike most Cascade Bicycle Club rides out this way, we did not stop at Tully's Coffee Shop, but kept right on riding. We passed the Alki Point Lighthouse. An interesting historical tidbit is that the first light keeper at Alki Point was Harry Mahler, who was the light keeper at Cape Meares Lighthouse in Oregon seven years earlier. Readers of this blog may have noted that Seattle was founded by a party who had sailed from Portland and landed on Alki Point. Seems that Oregon was always a step ahead of Seattle. ;-)
We continued on southward toward Lincoln Park.
We followed a path along the shoreline to access the park, then made a short but steep climb up to Faunterloy Street. We followed Faunterloy St back into West Seattle and followed bike directional signs for Alaska Junction.
We got back to the West Seattle Low Bridge, reportedly a one-of-a-kind bridge. We crossed the Duwamish Waterway
From there we pedaled back along the Elliot Bay Trail then the Ship Canal Trail, then to Seattle Pacific College and back up Queen Anne via "Kralik Way", named for Steve Kralik who showed us the easier route up the hill a couple of years ago.
Just as we crested the hill we detoured to Menchies Frozen Yogurt.
As I was eating my frozen treat I noted that the bike odometer showed 46.5 miles. I tried to talk my biking partner to ride an additional 3.5 miles with me to make a nice even 50 miles for the day, but I couldn't convince her that this was a worthwhile endeavor. We pedaled back home, she turned in, I made a lap around the top of Queen Anne.
I ended up with 50.4 miles.
A good way to check the box for day 26 of #30daysofbiking.
...........road bike..........rollers........mtb.........lifecycle....total
Today.........50................0..............0...............0............50 Jan............710................0..............0...............0...........710
Feb........... 578...............0..............0...............0............578
March ...........701.............0..............0...............0............701
April..........615.................0..............0...............0..........615 Total..........2604...............0..............0...............0.........2604
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