Washington – CopperLioness Roams

Home for a visit

CopperLioness — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:06:59 +0000

We had a wonderful three weeks in Canada seeing friends and family. Of course, there’s never enough time to see everyone or do everything that we’d like to do while we’re there, but we did the best we could and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Of course, my major regrets were that I couldn’t have sushi or the lovely microbrewed beer as I’m pregnant again, but I’ll just have to wait until next visit. The first week we spent time with my...

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Shakedown cruise shaken up

CopperLioness — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:04:00 +0000

A weekend with a zero percent chance of precipitation and no social plans seemed a perfect time to introduce DutchBoy to the joys of motorcycle touring before our trip to California. And to really test it we should also ride in the heat, which made a trip through the Okanagan make perfect sense. The plan was to ride to Oroville over the Hope-Princeton on Saturday, spend the night, and return through Winthrop, which is the number 1 Destination Highway in...

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Raaainn-iieeer

CopperLioness — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 04:40:00 +0000

Things broken on this trip: One contact lens (ripped)One tank bag zipper (map compartment)One camera door (CF card)One record for no “roadside chats” on a bikeTwo friendships (at least I thought they were)Friday morning, Canada Day, awake at 7 am, despite having gotten to bed at 1:40 the previous night fully exhausted after a full week at work, barely dragging the clean laundry into the apartment before collapsing on an unmade bed. Excited about trip to Mt. Rainier that I’ve...

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To Diablo and back

CopperLioness — Tue, 24 May 2005 03:43:00 +0000

Tackle and I had been looking forward to the May Long Weekend for months. We’d planned a 3 day trip to the Olympic Peninsula and Oregon Coast, and had 3 or 4 other people interested in coming along. But, as it grew nearer, it became apparent that the weather was going to be wet. Very wet. So, at the last minute, and faced with desertion by every other interested person, we decided to cancel and just go for a long...

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An Olympic Trip

CopperLioness — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:09:00 +0000

Tackle and I spotted a weekend that neither of had commitments on and planned a 2.5 day trip to the Olympic Peninsula. Perhaps planned is too strong a word. We picked out an end point and got some general ideas together, but we didn’t do things like arrange hotels or figure out mileage or anything like that. We invited Hot Rod and Tab to come along, making it quite the diverse collection of bikes – me on Penny, Tackle on...

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Shopping with SpeedyBikeGirls

CopperLioness — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:54:00 +0000

The SpeedyBikeGirls took advantage of the good weather on Good Friday for a group excursion down to WA. We rode down through Sumas, got stuck in the Easter long weekend border traffic, and then hit the relatively open and winding roads from the border down to Sedro Wooley. These roads wend gently through valleys, and along rivers and railroads, skirting farms and pastures, with the forest never far away. The ladies lunched in Burlington, in a Mexican restaurant (a first...

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