Sitting in Seattle

The ride had a big milestone yesterday, and I haven’t even gotten on the bike yet.  As we were passing Missoula, Montana we stopped to get breakfast and some fuel.  As I was inside getting our food, a woman stopped and spoke with Azure.  She suggested that we call a local news station and tell them what we were doing.  Azure jumped on-line to look up the number and it turns out that their lead story was a sad one.  A local teen had committed suicide the previous day.  We called the station, and sure enough they had us over to do an interview. There is a link below to the story. 

http://www.kpax.com/news/couple-prepares-cross-continental-bike-journey/

Our first news coverage and I haven’t even gotten on the bike, not a bad start. 

We made it to Seattle yesterday evening and have been receiving first class service from my uncle since we arrived.  It isn’t going to easy to go from first class fish and steak, to dehydrated potatoes and plain pasta.

As for today’s ridiculous/comical moment, as I was out on a training ride a bee flew into one of the vents on my helmet.  I haven’t been stung by a bee in well over 20 years, and I the last time I had a serious allergic reaction.  So there was some reason for concern.  I double-timed it back to my uncle’s and Azure had some benadryl waiting.  Painful, but at least I didn’t end up looking like Quasimoto.   

The cross bike is supposed to arrive here tomorrow morning.  I will assemble it and then we will be Northward bound.