Tandem – Page 5 – Skelton Sketches

Island Living…

Posted on August 23, 2013April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

We don’t actually live on an island, but still… you’ve got to take a ferry to find long flat miles to pedal… So one fine morning in order to make the most of some pre-fall sunshine we took off for Vancouver Island to pedal…

Ironically, our ultimate destination was another much smaller island…

via a smaller ferry…

Lovely country roads wend by pastures and quiet haunts… even a picturesque marsh.

We even got to do some walking this time around…

up a woodland trail in cool dappled shade to an overlook of …

the lighthouse station on Chrome Island!

Now that would be a little place to live; we’d have to get a stationery tandem!
I think I shall count my blessings…

Whew! by day’s end we’d pedaled 68 miles and I was more than ready for the ferry ride home…

–LS

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. Ps.23:2

Looking back at Three Hundred Miles…

Posted on July 11, 2013April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

Well, it has been quite the vacation…a fitness vacation for sure. We logged just over 300 miles in just over a week’s time and are now on the ferry home…Today, some clips from the journey in which we found not only beautiful wide open spaces but also the joy of touring them in the company of like-minded others…

Bellingham and beyond…

Every once in a long while you must stop by the road and consider another point of view…

This was a long day for me, my longest to date—72 miles of pedaling across hill and dale, with and without company—

It concluded in an unexpectedly beautiful way, huddled with 3 other tandem teams in an upper room of one of their homes overlooking Bellingham Bay, watching fireworks across the water…having shared not only a ride, but wonderful hospitality, a summer’s supper and a long walk getting to know each other. Such was the delightful day #2 of our tandem vacation!

Then off to Portland and surrounds…

There’s this amazing feature of cycling that enhances any food eaten, making even a 7-11 hotdog something worth raving about! When you need food it tastes so good!

We passed many farmland miles. I couldn’t get enough of snapping photos on the go…

And then we found this great bike shop…

…and spiffed up our ‘kit’ with memento jerseys and matching helmets…

…before heading back to Canada-land.

Heading home via Victoria…

One last ride around town…

…before packing it in to head home.

It’s been quite a vacation!

–LS

Oh LORD my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount! Ps.40:5