Des Moines

 & now I had just heard that Burien is closed due to another fire which is just as well since I am taking too long and realizing most these libraries close at 5 today and then I take a wrong turn and am pummeled by the traffic and the conjoining freeways until I about-face and, ahhh, DO find the bucolic Green River trail almost serene and calming (& all alone too!)

Unfortunately I don't stay on this long enough (worried about an incredibly steep hill further south) so get off the trail and join back in the tumult and probably an equally steep hill up Orillia Road (wondering to myself just what I am doing with all this idle pedaling!)-- which all turns out to be quite a big detour just to continue further south and west but finally over 99 again and down a quite precipitous road to Des Moines

But, jeepers, Romy is also on vacation so pity we couldn't re-connect -- just a fine marine mural inside

& boy oh boy is it a long wait for a quirky little bus back to the southernmost light rail stop at Angle Lake, and then another giant journey on the train and yet another interminable bus ride to get home...! At this point seemed to be about as cold as I've ever been with windows wide open on the bus and air blasting out -- shucks, here past mid May and I had to have some hot chocolate when I got back to my sanctuary....!