Day 35, Seattle

We rode our final day into Seattle today. Yet another day of excellent views as we rode through Mt Rainer National Park. The mountain itself put on a lovely parting show for us. I understand it is often clouded over but today it's 14 000 ft summit was putting on a fine display. The
Chinook pass leading up to the mountain was also beautiful reminding me very much of the European alps. From there we wound down into the environs of Seattle and a horrendous couple of hours getting lost, having to make last second lane changes across several lanes of grumpy city folk, the odd excursion the wrong way up a one way and a couple of kerb hops (lucky we weren't on Harleys). I'd like to thank Dave at this point for choosing to leave one digit off our target address thereby placing us 6 miles in the wrong direction at a non- existent address in a slum. Ta.
We somehow collected an extra person on a cruiser today. He was kind enough to advise me on all sorts of road etiquette. Given that his presence prevented us from going down a series of intriguing little dirt roads I felt hard pressed not to comment on the etiquette of latching onto complete strangers on totally different bikes. Given that this was Dave and my last day of riding together I was a little annoyed by his presence, perhaps a little unfairly. Anyway, the views of Mt Rainer cheered me up and so I decided not to sulk anymore and to make a connection I asked if I might sit on his bike at a rest stop. Well, bad idea. I received a lecture on how sitting on another mans bike is like sleeping with thier wife etc.
I told him his "wife" was fat, ugly and not much good for what she was designed for and I had no desire to sleep with her, annoying little man.
I then flicked my hair ( which has chosen not to grow since the ill advised buzz cut Jennie gave me a month ago), no mean feat, and stalked off.
Well I thought it anyway. Needless to say this interchange enhanced the bonding process and after that I chose to leave him with Dave.
Some nice pics today but the best one is of a brave young boy on the recovery path. I am informed that he has earned 6 weeks off school so there is yin and yang in everything. I am reliably informed that Jennie has been her usual epic self in how she has coped with all this. She is very special.