As I continue with a struggle to return to enjoying my bike riding, Susan continues to try to help me with the struggle. Miss gadget queen got us each a new toy — once she saw how good it would be for me, she needed one too.
Rather than keep the Garmin display part of it (the expensive part that had much more to it than I/we needed or would ever use), we now have only this Rearvue part that, attached to the rear of your seat post, indicates when there is a vehicle approaching from behind. Susan researched and played around with it enough to find that we could connect the Rearvue to the Ride With GPS app that we have on our iPhones, returning the Garmin display. One less geeky item to have attached to our handlebars. I find that it works quite well as it beeps when something is approaching, and shows an icon of a vehicle along the side of the map on the phone. We are both hopeful it will be a great help in my feeling of safety and in regaining my confidence.
On to our adventure.
This past January we had taken a brief camping trip to Anacortes (you can find that under January 2026) and have talked about returning to include a ride around Guemes Island. Finally the time has come. Our time here will be shortened as Susan has a PT visit on Tuesday; we arrived yesterday, Sunday and will stay either one or two nights, but are considering one night.
Once set up at our campsite we took a little bike ride into town and found the Dockside Dog at its new location. It is right in town directly across the street from Gere Deli where many cyclists, us included, stop for lunch when riding around Anacortes.
It’s nice enough, and still has the same owner, who remembered us from his other location, but it is just not the same as stopping along the trail for a dog.
Anacortes has murals that are kind of three dimensional that are quite interesting. I try to get a photo of some but they don’t really show them well. But this one was near the Dogs place so I tried again.
After having our hotdog lunch at the outdoor table, we continued on. We rode our usual route along the Tommy Thompson trail and across the bridge to turn around at the end and return. I likely would have chosen to add the March Point loop before the return but Susan was not up for that.
Our selfie of the bridge, as bad as it is of me.
The times I have ridden the bridge, the tide has not been out as much as it was on this day. Blue sky and sunshine too.
We have seen the harbor seals on several of our bridge crossings, but this was the best they have posed for a photo.
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