Vancouver to Bellingham

45 miles

July 21st 2006

Blaine

What a great day to ride the bikes. I traveled with Patrick Hemingway to Bellingham,Washington where we met with the local the Bellingham Sustainability group at the home of members Dave and Allison Ewoldt. Patrick was onboard to document the first few days of my trip and put some highway miles on his motorcycle, I was starting a six week photo assignment.

All was going well until Patrick pulled up lame with an awful grinding sound coming out of his clutch. We were in Bellingham, and that would be as far as he was going to make it. Turns out he needed a little more oil – lesson learned.

Dave, Allison, Sandy and yes … another Dave, that made three of us, met in the Ewoldt’s living room amongst a mountain of moving boxes to discuss sustainability in Bellingham. What followed was an hour roundtable discussion that saw such topics as Economics, Food Security and Community Action covered. We could have spoke for hours but the Ewoldt’s were in the middle of a move to Tucson where they will be continuing their sustainability work so we cut the talk short. Good luck to them both on there move. On to Orcas and Sustainable Orcas Island...

Dave and Allison