The 2024 PNW Ride - Days 4-6

September 14-16, 2024

These three days were about visiting family here in Sequim, WA and my motorcycle sat, awaiting its next outing.  I stayed at my mom’s place and visited with her and my sister during my time here.  We did some sightseeing, ate some meals together, and, generally, just caught up.

One of the outings took us to Port Williams County Park.

Protection Island is across the water.

I did get out for a few runs. Here’s some scenery from Sunday morning.

This is where my bike has been hanging out.

We visited a nice brewery in Port Angeles.

They had really nice restrooms.

Monday morning I did a run to the Railroad Bridge.  This area is now a nature preserve and has some nice trails.

On Monday evening my mom and I went through a box of really old family photos.  Lots of history there.  She’s made notes on the backs of most of them and I’ll get them at some point to scan.

And that’s it.  During the day I made a reservation for the ferry that will take me from Port Townsend to Fort Casey.  I scouted out camping locations and though I am too near my arrival times to make reservations it doesn’t look like finding a spot will be an issue.  My plan after the ferry is to ride north to pick up Hwy 20 and take that east across the Cascades.  I rode that highway westward two years ago and it’s worth doing again.  I’ll camp on the east side of the mountains.  It will be a shorter day, about 200 miles, but I won’t be off the ferry until noon so that should work out fine.

On Wednesday I’ll head north into Canada and ride Hwy 3 to the Cranbrook area where I’ll camp in a provincial park.  The next day, Thursday, I go south into Montana and ride as far as Harlowton where I’ll meet my wife at city park campground and we’ll stay there that night and do the last 90 miles to Billings on Friday.

The weather looks reasonable with maybe a few showers today but no big storms that I can see.  It should be a nice few days.