A Seattle Sub-24
As you may recall, a large share of the inspiration for the Bike Overnights project came from a piece in the January 2007 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine titled S24Os: Bicycle Camping for the Time Challenged. The story was written by Rivendell Bicycle Works founder Grant Petersen. S24O, as Grant explains in the article, is shorthand for sub-24-hour overnight and, he writes, "by definition [the trip] has to last less than a full day, doorstep to doorstep."We don't put such strict limitations on our rides, of course, which is why we call them Bike Overnights and not S24Os. Some of the mini-adventures featured at the site are two, even three overnights in duration. Yet certain rider/writers do stick to the original concept, like Louise Kornreich, who posted this week's story, Overnight Escape from Seattle. "After reading about Bike Overnights and S24Os on the Adventure Cycling blog, my friend Todd and I dreamed up a way to take a mid-week break to an island while not having to take any vacation time from work," Louise writes. "We would ride to work with our bikes fully loaded for a night of camping, slave all day at our desks (or not), and ride down to the Seattle ferry dock to depart for Bainbridge Island in the early evening."And that's exactly what they did. Once on the island, they loaded up at a grocery store and headed to Fay Bainbridge Park, which "mostly hugs the shores of Puget Sound, and allows for many views to the north (e.g., Mount Baker) and east (the Cascade Range). At the park, we cooked dinner and watched the moon rise over Mount Rainier, then set up our tents at a site right near the beach.
"The next morning, after watching the sunrise, we had a quick snack and packed up to head back to town. While the area's commuters were queuing up for the ferry, we lingered over breakfast, then rolled down the ramp and onto the waiting boat, heading back to the city. Although it was another day of work we were headed to, our close-in adventure had made us feel like we were on vacation."Read the rest of Louise's story at BikeOvernights.org. Our current Photo of the Week comes from Beach Music: Wild Horses and a Rocket Launch, by Bill Clendenen. It posted at BikeOvernights.org on May 28, 2012.BikeOvernights.org Photo of the Week, 07.06.12.Top 2 photos by Louise Kornreich --BIKE OVERNIGHTS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights content from BikeOvernights.org. Previously, from March 2009 through January 2012, Mac posted weekly at Biking Without Borders. He also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to 45,000 readers worldwide.
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/07/seattle-sub-24.html


