Sunday, September 12, 2010

Motorcycling around Washington State

My friend Mel and I used Labor Day weekend to take a three-day motorcycle trip from Seattle to see a few parts of our beautiful state. Using the fabulous "Destination Highways - Washington" (a must-have book for anyone planning scenic rides or drives in WA), we managed half a dozen of the state's best riding roads, including two of the top four!


Mount St. Helen (volcano crater)
We started by riding around the East side of Mt. St. Helens (seen here in the distance) from Randle down to Carson, some of the twistiest, most scenic miles anywhere!  I actually got motion sick on the ride up the mountain toward Spirit Lake!

Anyway, from Carson, we rode along the Columbia River awhile, spent the night in Goldendale, and then angled NE through Bickelton (a charming little farm town with a nice historical museum and GREAT $1.50 ice cream cones!) and over into Idaho at Lewiston. From there we went N to Moscow, and then over to Pullman (two college towns) and NW towards home (we planned to take the route through Leavenworth and over the mountains, but unfortunately changed our plan and took I-90 to get home faster)!


I think we too often think we need to go far afield to find great scenic roads, but WA has a ton of them! We only scratched the surface on this little trip!
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2010 at 5:46 AM

    Hi Bruce
    Mike (one of the 4 Canadians riding in the Black Hills vimeo) Great Blog - Glad to hear all things are going well with the Y3K project. Couldn't agree more about the riding in Washington. We 4 riding Canadians crisscrossed your beautiful state on two trips this summer going from Roosevelt Lake through Leavenworth and Olympic National park to Walawala (oh those sweet onions ). We also ran a section of very twisty hwy that took us behind Mt St Helens and down toward Hood river in Oregon(but that's another state). The Washington part was spectacular. Great roads everywhere , beautiful scenery so just wanted to echo your sentiments on riding around Washington.

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