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A Few Food Stops for Ballard Tourists

We were in the market for whatever looked good to eat. We were on the way to the Ballard Locks and looking for just a little something fresh and fruity to sustain us. As was our wont, we bought more than our stomachs could stomach at once.

  • If the Hood Canal bridge doesn't botch its mandatory 20 perfect test openings in a row, then it's looking like the bridge could open in a few days, bringing an early close to the $500 million project.
  • The CHS blog reports that Seattle's Central Little League sluggers certainly deserve a post-game ice cream, after getting some much deserved props in the New York Times sports pages.
  • Seattlest Pix: 09Mar10

    "Uzumaki" by liquidnight, from the Seattlest Flickr pool

    John Fish (spokesman for the McCain campaign): I'd like to open the floor for questions.

    No really. It's true. According to the League of American Bikes (via the Cascade Bicycle Alliance in our case), Washington is the most bicycle friendly state in the union. According to the LAB, "Washington’s model bike laws, signed and mapped statewide bike route network, dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects, and an active statewide bicycle advisory committee" are reasons that the state earned top honors above Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon (numbers two, three and four respectively) and all the others.

    Monday morning, Swedish adventurer (and former Issaquah resident) Renata Chlumska will begin her "Around America Adventure." Over the next sixteen months, she will kayak and bicycle around the perimeter of the lower 48 states--a feat as yet never attempted. She'll travel unsupported, lugging her gear in the kayak or pulling it in a trailer behind her bike.

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