98 miles (2 days)
12 hours in the saddle
7000’ of climbing

Susana and I went on our first fully-loaded overnight trip on Whidbey Island this weekend with the new bikes. Satuday morning we caught the ferry to Clinton and started out riding the southwestern part of the island on roads I’ve never been on. The side roads were sparsley trafficked but there is development like crazy going on there. It will soon be just as crowded as the mainland.

We made it to Fort Casey by 5pm and scouted out the area to find a lot of trashy RVs occupying the campground.. we made a decision to head on to Ft. Ebey just 10 miles up the highway, some of it on the busier higway 20. Fortunately we found a bike trail that runs alongside the highway and took that to our camp site in the human-powered part of the park, completely unoccupied and on a nice pond.

Sunday we retraced some of our route back down the west side of the island, stopping in Coupeville for lunch. It’s always a great feeling whizzing by the 2-hour, 90-minute, 60-minute wait markers for the vehicle ferry line to get on the one leaving right that minute.