The Sorensens

This past week I have been doing the most epic commute I have ever attempted. Each day I travel from our home in Rainier Valley to Poulsbo. This is about 30 miles in total, though I don’t bicycle across the water. Rather, I bicycle to the ferry, then bus from the ferry to Poulsbo, then ride the remainder of the trip to work. At a little over two hours one way, I am spending over twenty hours this week wearing spandex. Perhaps you would like to try it? You needn’t cycle, you could just wear spandex half of your day at work. Go on!

It is an interesting commute. Going across the water is beautiful. I particularly enjoy watching the ferry unload, and seeing all the bicyclists and motorcyclists come off first. It is a veritable horde of cyclists rampaging out of the gates. Such fury! Such power! And then the motorcycles which are of course a bit of a letdown after the bikes.

Would I want to do it for any extended period of time? No, it is far too much of my day spent traveling. But it is an interesting diversion for a short while.

~haakon

For the past month on so we have been delighted to ride around on our new bike, Morag. This past week I have really put the bike to the planned use and have been very pleased. On Tuesday, I transported among several other things, a microwave from Ballard to South Seattle. Woohoo!

The amazing thing is how much of a non-event the ride was. Yes, the bike was a bit heavier, but it handled everything just fine. The only rough bit was that Seattle pulled out the stops and dumped rain on me for about half the trip.

My next favorite haul has to be on my commute in to work. I stopped in to the local QFC to get a dozen donuts, but the bags on the bike were all full with my laptop, clothes, lunch, etc. I didn’t really want to put the box vertically in the bags as I was worried about them getting crushed. Fortunately, it had sprinkled lightly and so the wooden snap deck was a bit damp. I optimistically set the cardboard box just flat on top of the snap deck, and the moisture kept it from slipping at all! And so I cycled the remaining half mile into work with a box of donuts sitting casually on my back rack. The reward was sweet!

~haakon