We head up to Chico to meet up with Casey after I flew in. We had lunch at the Sierra Nevada Brewery, which I had no idea was up there! It was a great facility, you could smell the hopps as soon as you opened the car door!
Will insisted on getting the sampler and I was glad we did because I got to try a lot of beers that I had no idea existed! Nice job bro!
The day after biking around Lopez Island, I caught a flight down to northern Cali to attend Casey’s baby shower that was being held in her hometown.
Will picked me up from the airport since I wasn’t going to be doing much driving. As soon as we got out of Sacramento it began to get smokier and smokier due to all the fires! Before I had departed Washington, I had heard on the news that Arnold Schwarzenegger had asked for our firefighters come down and help battle the fires. I thought Arnold was during on his acting skills but it looks like they really did need them!
Poor Cali, it’s no fire! Guess that paradise isn’t always perfect.
The sketchy map I brought along was really not much help. We discovered this look out point after exploring a little. It’s a good thing this island wasn’t very big.
And as I pedaled up one of the few hills I stopped and grabbed this sweet shot of a hay field. Love the big hay bales! This def was a beautiful island so glad Karen convinced me to come! =)
We arrived at Lopez Island and immediately we had great photo ops! A sea plane had just landed so grabbed a few shots of it docking.
We continued on and discovered a funny nude beach sign along a beach front. It definitely wasn’t a nude beach but it definitely was a great photo opportunity!
We drove a hour and half north of Seattle to catch the ferry from Anacortes. Karen went into the ticket building while I hung out with the bikes since we didn’t bring locks. Our cute bikes, mine is on the right.
As we waited for the ferry I was freezing my butt off because it didn’t occur to me at 5am to pack warmer clothes. Luckily we didn’t have to wait long before getting on the ferry before any one else!
So happy to get into the warmth!
My old roommate Karen was in town and she convinced me to get up at the butt crack to ride our bikes around one of the San Juan Island, specifically Lopez Island. We were up so early the sun was barely up and that says a lot because I think sunrise is around 5am or so out here.
I headed over to Greenlake the other weekend to witness first hand the Milk Carton Derby. Basically people created vessels out of milk cartons and raced them across the lake. It was pretty entertaining to watch! Even better to see some of them fall in when their craft capsized!! Here are some other photos off the official site to get a better feel for the event.
We got up early Sunday to beat the heat and hiked up to find this great waterfall. I guess there was a recent rock slide which basically distroyed the road that got closer to it. We decided not to venture in to far to avoid being caught in the follow up rock slide! I lead such a dangerous life…lol j/k. =)
The snow banks were still huge all around Mount Rainier! This is me infront of one to show you how hig it really was!
We came across this beautiful river so we went down to check it out and of course have a little fun.
We were all about tossing near by wood into the river to see how fast it would get pulled away. It was like we were 10 years ago again…fun times!