Bicycling San Juan Island in Washington’s Puget Sound
When you’re half dozing after a long bike ride and you hear someone say, “I saw whales!” there are only a few places you could be.
One of them is San Juan Island, the main island of a cluster that sit in Washington State’s Puget Sound hard by the Canadian border.
The small islands — San Juan, Lopez, and Orcas — are popular with bicyclists and many bicycle touring companies make a good business running cyclists out to the islands, feeding them, bedding them down at bed & breakfast inns, and sagging a few up some of the steeper hills. …
JOHNSON’S SHUT-INS STATE PARK, MO — We’re tenting in the group camp area near some Boy Scouts tonight. They’re pretty comical, and a couple came over for awhile to talk bicycles, like: “Can you ride no-hands?”
