Last and Next to last camping trips with Ian and Adam; Bayview State Park, The Logs, Sun Lakes State Park

We did this for so many years.  So many terrific memories with these fun little boys.

Our final camping trip was in August, 2017, but we are including the next to the last one in this blog entry also (because we forgot to put it in the correct place when we had the 2016 book made).

This turned out to be the final time we took the two boys out together camping.  We didn't know it at the time.  

Everybody eating Vicky's granola, which everybody eats whenever possible!

 

After leaving BayView State Park, we went to The Logs, which is a set of cabins near Mount Baker.  We had been there multiple times, and Vicky had been going there for years before that.

Jessica met us there.   And we all took a hike.

The next day Jules arrived, and we took another hike.

What's hiking without ice cream?



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Sun Lakes:  A HOT HOT camping trip, August 2016

It was hot, like really hot.  Actually too hot to be able to do a lot of things, except hang around in the lake.   But we all did our best.  Took a couple of short hikes, but because it was so HOT, they had to be short.

We had fun.  

 

Adam holding a small deer in his hand:

and boy did the ice cream every afternoon help!

We finish the STP!!!!!! Our 6th!

We don't have all of the photos yet, so will add to this in a week or so.  We had a great ride with Jules, once again.  All three of us had times we were pleased with.  Such a wonderful feeling crossing that finish line.  We worked hard and diligently for five months for this.

 Leaving early:

Jules finishing!





The Mexican Bandit in Treasure of the Sierra Madre might not have needed them, but we do need our STEENKING BADGES!

Team Graybill!

Final preparations for Saturday's STP

Since we got home from Road Trip 6 we have either cycled on the trainers or on roads for over 165 hours, which is almost 7 24-hour days.  Doing that requires a lot of discipline to be consistent. 

This 165 hours means we have gotten onto our bikes over 110 times.

We have had a blast.

Now we are in our final stage of preparation--clothes, food, gear, etc.. 

 Bikes:

Gear:

Clothes:

We have rested a week to allow everything to heal up (longer than we have in the past, but our bodies require more rest time the older we get).

Tomorrow we head to Seattle to stay with Jules, Jessica, Ian and Adam.  Vicky and I will head out very early (in the dark) on Saturday morning with Jules, for our sixth time we have ridden to Portland with him.  How special is that?

We are so excited.  We have worked very hard so that this ride will be fun.  We don't want to get to Portland all used up.  We want to get there with energy to spare.  If we do, then we will enjoy the process.  We can't wait to cross that finish line. 

We are very fortunate that, in our late 60s, we can still do something like this.  It feels like we are blessed.