What a year, 2020! 

For our past 3 tours, we've quit our jobs, Rachel an RN and Patrick an Architect, only to return to our same jobs. Not this time. We had several milestones in 2020,  including 25 years married, and Rachel 's 70th Birthday, and retiring from OR nursing. Then in Spring of 2021, Patrick celebrating his 55th birthday, decided to "retire" from Architectural office work and plans to do independent projects.

And now,  here we go again, "same, same but different".  After a year of hunkering down because of Covid 19, and  both of us now fully vaccinated, we are ready to explore our own country by cycling the Northern Tier. 

May 31st, renting a car one way, we will drive to Everett, WA, staying with a Warmshowers Host. June 1st we will take the Mukilteo Ferry  cycling to Anacortes  and then start cycling East. We will not follow the NT route strictly after reaching Minnesota, and will incorporate as many Rail to Trail routes as possible. Once we reach Bar Harbor ME, we will make our way to Boston by October 16th to fly to Amsterdam for a 2 week family visit in Ossendrecht. Flying home to Boise November 1st.

Then, we start planning the next adventure.