Didn't seem so very far next to the wee International District/Chinatown branch (library names replacing dashes with slashes now): with a very appropriate display of tea cups inside:
SOOOOO, two years after my last library bike ride visit, I finally commit to bicycling to the last and farthest of the King County Library System branches, Skykomish! Leaving home early on a Monday morning... & riding to Northgate for light rail ride to UDub stadium for 2 buses, first to Redmond where I got to revisit library with its oh-so-appropriate old bike race photos & children's mural over to Duvall with a friendly greeting from Ronni & staff & then off I go, first over scary shoulderless bridge and road to W. Snoqualmie Valley Road, a comparatively easy flat (though still mostly shoulderless) 10 mile rural ride into Monroe Not much going on here on a Monday night except for a brutal massage (neck is my body part that hurts the most from bike riding!), a middle eastern meal and lots of silly tv at highway 2 bordering hotel room -- & next to roaring railroad tracks too. Slept fitfully in anticipation of following days' two year fullfillment (choosin...
Yea, ok, so Tuesday is the only reasonable day to go to Skykomish and it's supposed to get up to the 90s next week so I may have to postpone but look where we've been so far...! and how many miles we have covered!: Home -Broadview – Greenwood – Green lake - University – Wallingford – Fremont- Queen Anne – Magnolia- Ballard: .3 + 2.5 + 1.5 + 1.3 + 1.3 + 1.2 + 1.9 + 4.7 + 3.1 = 17.8 Home - Northgate – Lake City – Northeast – Montlake – Capitol Hill – Madrona/Sally Goldmark – Douglas/Truth – International District/Chinatown - Downtown: 3.2 + 2 + 3.3 + 3.4 + 2.5 + 2.2 + 1.4 + 1.3 + 1.1 = 20.4 Home - Beacon Hill – Columbia – Rainier Beach – NewHolly – South Park – Southwest – High Point – Delridge - West seattle – 12 + 2.5 + 2.9 + 1.8 + 3.6 + 3.3 + 1.9 + 1 + 2.8 = 30.8 Home – Shoreline - Richmond beach – 3.5 + 3.8 = 7.3 [May 3] Home – Lake Forest Park – Kenmore – Bothell – Kingsgate – Kirkland- Bellevue – 6.1 + 1.6 + 3.2 + 3.9 + 5.7 + 4.5 = 25 [May 11] Home – M.I – Newport Way – ...
This is cool, I want to visit these libraries
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