Seattle Pride

[Parker]

Originally Posted by gaea

what are the chances we can squeeze in a trip to the water while im there?

I had already planned a couple of bike trips to a few different places on or around Lake Washington.

1. Down in the Seward Park area
2. On the other side, over in Kirkland
3. Golden Gardens Park

With at least 2 of the above trips, you can get to the water - and we can do them all in one day or over a couple of days - we'll see how everything goes.

[gaea]

Originally Posted by Parker

I had already planned a couple of bike trips to a few different places on or around Lake Washington.

1. Down in the Seward Park area
2. On the other side, over in Kirkland
3. Golden Gardens Park

With at least 2 of the above trips, you can get to the water - and we can do them all in one day or over a couple of days - we'll see how everything goes.

yay....now that rocks for me...

[Parker]

Of course, I forgot about Alki Beach in West Seattle -- but Golden Gardens Park will already show you the Sound - I meant to edit my last post to say that bc GGP is not on Lake Washington, it's on the Sound - but I forgot to edit! Also - it's a little less cluster-fuckish to get to than West Seattle, imo.


My plan was to ride (preferably on Friday to avoid weekenders at the beaches/parks) from my house up over Lake Washington and down into Kirkland - stopping to eat if we need/want to - then take the 520 floating bridge back across the lake - on my bike, it will feel almost like we are boating across the lake & I will need to remember to take my helmet cam for that bc it's friggin awesome - then take Lake Washington Blvd down to/through the Seward Park area.

We can hit Golden Gardens Park right before both of those or on a different day as a short trip.

[gaea]

Originally Posted by Parker

Of course, I forgot about Alki Beach in West Seattle -- but Golden Gardens Park will already show you the Sound - I meant to edit my last post to say that bc GGP is not on Lake Washington, it's on the Sound - but I forgot to edit! Also - it's a little less cluster-fuckish to get to than West Seattle, imo.


My plan was to ride (preferably on Friday to avoid weekenders at the beaches/parks) from my house up over Lake Washington and down into Kirkland - stopping to eat if we need/want to - then take the 520 floating bridge back across the lake - on my bike, it will feel almost like we are boating across the lake & I will need to remember to take my helmet cam for that bc it's friggin awesome - then take Lake Washington Blvd down to/through the Seward Park area.

We can hit Golden Gardens Park right before both of those or on a different day as a short trip.

um floating bridge???? how high up is it??? and can i close my eyes?? or is this a something that Gaea must do just to do it?

ok just gonna ask wtf is a floating bridge??????????????

and on a bike...

ok im breathing i can do this lol....

ok your nutz....its official...i watched a video...not a fan of bridges however wth if i throw up midway we will get it on video for all to see lol

[Parker]

Personally, I think you should do it so when you look at and share the video later, you can say hey - I did that!

But, like I said - if it freaks you out, we dont have to use it, we can go back up north and around the lake the way we came.

For the curious, here is a video of the WA-520 floating bridge - the driver is going in the direction we would go, from the eastside to Seattle across Lake Washington - you can see the UW stadium on the right (around 2:30) and if we take the bridge, we would take that same exit this person took - we would then turn left to take Lake Washington Blvd down to the Seward Park area (turning right would take us to the Arboretum and the UW).

[gaea]

Happy Pride Seattle.....maybe next year ill get there.

[firegal]

Then maybe ill be free from work to enjoy pride with ya gaea too!

[Parker]

And I will (hopefully) be living in IL by then.

But I hope you're able to make it to Seattle Pride at some point, Gaea - I think you'd really enjoy it.