It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Thursday, 19 May 2011

A Washington post

Wed 18th May. Peered out of tent this am to see sunlight streaming through the trees, happy days:).




V cold in night but not a prob now. Had good day riding quiet roads through Olympic state park and along the hood Canal, Hugh waterway opposite Seattle , managed to find a state park at a place called Potlatch , as I lie in tent typing this a guy is playing harmonica round a campfire, all very wild west. Highlight of the day, fast 10 minute decent in the sunshine following long climb through Olympic SP , warm smell of pine in the air, lush. Nb no bears in Washington state


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