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......

Someone is intentionally killing trees along the Burke Gilman Trail. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department says that someone has killed seven 70-foot-tall trees along the BG Trail near 77th Avenue. This person, while also having nefarious intentions for local greenery, apparently is obsessed with the number seven. The parks department believes the Tree Assassin is killing the trees by injecting herbicide into holes that have been drilled into the trunks. The trees that have......

"What did you do on Saturday?" Always with a smile, we've asked--and have been asked--this question many many times today. It seems everyone around us is genuinely interested and excited to hear what we were up to during our glorious sunny Saturday. Us? Once we finished mowing the lawn for the first time this year, we packed a sandwich, a book, some tunes, a thermos of Tanqueray & tonic, and biked down to Richmond Beach......

We spend a lot of time here at Seattlest bemoaning the fate of bicycle riders in Seattle. It's a hard-knock life for us, we like to say, living in a city that likes to tout itself as green to the nth degree while also putting forward a Master Bike Plan that leaves something to be desired in almost every neck of the woods. Well, on Saturday, when the weather was spectacular, we took a nice,......