Date: 14/06
City: Seattle, USA
Kilometres ridden: 53
Cumulative kilometre: 46656
Street: City roads
Weather: Sunny, warm

Yesterday we booked our bikes in for maintenance at a workshop outside of Seattle. Today we dropped them off and Gaila was nice enough to drive us back.

On our way back we passed Microsoft, so Sigrid was keen to get her picture taken in front of the site.

Gaila told us about a troll under a bridge; we were certainly keen to see that. And here is a troll under the bridge. What you can’t see is that the troll holds a VW Beatle in left hand.

The next stop was the restaurant where the surprise party was organised. It worked great and Phoenix enjoyed the surprise and the marvellous cake. We met a young English motorcyclist who is on its way to Prudhoe Bay, we will see if we can meet him in Alaska and do the last bit together.

We enjoyed the whole evening with food and cocktails – enough said – and got back home pretty late but happy 😀

 

Date: 15/06
City: Seattle, USA
Kilometres ridden: 53
Cumulative kilometre: 46709
Street: City roads
Weather: Sunny, warm

Today a group ride was planned and since our bikes were in the workshop, Gaila offered her BMW F650 for us to ride two-up. Well as you can imagine, Gaila had to twist my arm very hard for that…  😉
It gave us the opportunity to see how the BMW compared with our DR650. Unfortunately the BMW performed verrry well.

After a short ride in the big group we split up. We had to get back to the workshop which was servicing our bikes, luckily via a detour through a national forest partially following a river.

The way to the workshop took longer then expected, so we had to hurry a bit, which was fun as well 😀. Gaila and Tad dropped us off at the workshop. They went back home and to their other appointments. We waited until the bikes were ready and went home as well.