The adventure cycling route skips Seattle and the closest is gets to Seattle is Bremerton. Bremerton seemed like a good place to spend a few days as we await for Sue’s train and she takes care of other business but before doing any of that we have to get there. The roads were good but as we got closer the traffic started to build. It think this is because we got there when there as a shift change at the Navy base, or maybe it was because it was friday and everyone was trying to escape.
Once again the roads were good except for the final stretch into Bremerton where there was a lot of debris on the road. Once we got to the AirBnB we headed to downtown Bremerton, which was only a 15 minute walk from where we were staying. There was a private event going on at the water front that closed the public walkway along the water. That sucks.
In Yorktown, Virginia filled up her water bladder to drink she never did. She ended up carrying it all the way across the country on her back without taking a sip of it. After a few weeks the joke became that the water was stanky from the constant temperature change each day. She also said it helped in the winds because it gave her more weight. But in reality Sue wanted to take the water from the Atlantic watershed and pour it directly into the Pacific watershed. We could not find a reasonable place along the waterfront so we walked in another direction and found the perfect place. She got to dump her water directly into the Puget Sound.
Today’s stats: total mileage 49.86 miles, average speed 13.6 mph, total climbing 1749 feet, total descent 1775 feet, maximum speed 28.9 mph.