My spouse Kelli, seven-year-old child and I woke up Tuesday morning with a plan to get to Lopez Island with our bicycles and camping gear using only public transit.
There are a handful of fun options if you can bike 30 or so miles on roads, but that’s a bit too much for our kid to do on her own bike. So we’re sort of in an awkward middle transition phase for bike-riding car-free families where she’s a little too big for me to carry her long distances on my road bike, but she’s still building up her own biking range and abilities. How then are we supposed to get to the San Juan Islands with our bikes if we don’t have a car?
A public transit marathon!…