After spending most of the first day in Seattle in an alley building our bikes, we left town for Bainbridge on a ferry. The view off the back of the boat is the city shrinking in the distance and the view to the front is the peaks of the Olympic mountains. We rode over the island to the Kitsap penninsula and up over Whidbey Island to Anacortes. We dipped our bikes in the harbor in Anacortes before setting out on the Adventure Cycling Northern Tier route with the expectation of dipping them again in the Atlantic in New York. Two days out from Anacortes we hit our first two mountain passes up to 5500 feet. The scenery was amazing and there was still snow on the ground. We spent the night near the top and rode down into the old west town of Winthrop today. Tomorrow we will be topping Loup Loup pass and then down into the Okanogan valley. The ride has been beautiful so far and there is plenty more to come.tailwinds and toeclips! 