Everyone slept GREAT in the very comfortable beds at the Ship Harbor Inn. We thought we were staying there two nights so imagine our surprise when we moved down to Washington Is State Park.

Corvin, our 20 year old German, has taken a fancy to some American foods . . . but definitely not biscuits with sausage gravy!!!

Last morning for a while with chandeliers hanging over our heads at breakfast!!!

After breakfast we had a meeting on the veranda where we broke up the ‘group gear’ among our panniers . . .

. . . had a map meeting for todays first ride . . .

. . . and made our lunches complete with these goodies!!!

Oh, you will meet the cast of characters in the next three months but right now I am sure most of the bikers out there are interested in what people are riding . . . so here we go!!

this is Wade’s solar panel that he is hoping to power his c-pap machine every night from a battery he charges during the day.

Corvin has a solar panel too for his phone, although somewhat smaller than Wade’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soon we headed out for a 20 mile shakedown ride to make sure everything fit on the bikes and nothing fell off!!! Mark has a Topeak trailer he hauls. He put a dynamo hub on both his front wheel and another on the small trailer wheel. The one on the trailer powers his lighted flag pole. LED’s run up the length of the pole!!! George, Mark made his own inverter, and it didn’t blowup. I’ll get you the plans.

We rode over to our ocean overlook at the half way point of todays ride for the traditional wheel dipping in the Pacific and a group photo.

Connie cooperated and was happy to had her hooves dipped in the ocean

Here is our happy group . . . it’s going to be a great ride!!!

. . . and Allison gives us her blessing!!

As we left, we noticed the vertical rifts of sand running up the water onto the beach. Nobody could explain it . . . seems the sand should be piling up the other way, parallel to the waves.

At the beach we ran into a Backroads Touring group that was riding among the San Juan Islands. They are an expensive outfit and supply every luxury, including all bikes, meals, single rooms and . . .

. . . nice little lunch breaks along the way!!!

Nancy and Jasmine were two of their riders and they were having a great time!!!

We got back to camp hungry but set up our tents before dinner. Here Corvine, displays the footprint of his his new smalllllllllllll German tent. he has never camped before!!!

Sanitation and cleanliness are very important in camp with a group this big. Hand sanitizer used before all meals and a triple was of dishes afterwards!

A hot pan set + on a new plastic tarp = melting !!!!

Chili tonight with the meat added after anyone who is a vegetarian has scooped out their portion. Here Bernie and Anne wait for the frying pan to heat up to cook the beef.

Come and get it. Diner is always at 6:00pm, followed by a map meeting at 7:00pm followed by more chores and then into the tents!