Fall City

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 Soooo, a swift drive to Issaquah transit center -- how nice that Wendy P is there to greet me & chat a bit etc.! -- and now I start, but waitaminnit!: no internet on my phone??? Oh well, guess I can manage with my crude black & white print outs from google maps, but NO: now part of the bike trail is closed and I have to make a detour?:


This sign is fine but as you can see, the actual green line marking the road that I am supposed to detour on is covering up the name of the road!!! And then I discover my phone doesn't even work to call them....luckily I see a couple of hardy bicyclists go by with big backpacks on their bikes so I figure that MUST be the right way...!

And now I climb but then discover once again, a quite nice and oh-so-hidden-from-car-traffic bike trail paralleling I-90, this one not even paved but still a good hard trail and I nearly all alone on it...


And now since I am not using my phone for directions I can take more photos than usual....once I got to Preston, then the trail got REAL nice, through a dense wonderful forest with even rainforest-like moss on some trees!


Then down upon the Preston- Fall City road but I am getting used to riding the narrow shoulders with cars whizzing by....then off the main road and through the back streets and here is Fall City finally!:


Krys is here! Gives me a friendly hello but can scarcely pause as she rushes on, oh well...
and I'm on hold forever about my phone, never mind, but remembered that I helped write or edit the sign for the big totem pole outside...





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