Redmond to Kennewick

After saying my goodbyes, I left Josh and Wendy's place at about 10AM. Having Josh and Wendy here and also a place to stay for 2 weeks has been really helpful. I am very thankful that they allowed me to cramp their space for 2 weeks! It would have been so much more difficult doing all the organizing from a hotel, and it was great to catch up with them both and do some stuff together. They also provided me with some valuable insight into American customs and culture.

I loaded all the stuff on my bike, in the hope that none of it was too heavy and wasn't going to fall off! Each bit of luggage has a weight limit, but I had no scales to weigh them with so I just had to pack evenly and hope for the best. Thank god for the Ventura pack, there is no way all my stuff would fit into the panniers alone!

In Redmond, just about to head off to Kennewick

The plan was to go back to the bike dealer and get my 500 mile service out of the way. It. Was easy to ride to kennewick, because at the end of the trip my odometer would have exactly 520 miles on it.

After a long ride, I wearily dropped my bike at the service department and caught a taxi to my hotel. Thankfully the hotel was really nice! Somehow I got a double room, and had lots of space! I spent the rest of the night just chilling and getting my blog up-to-date. It was fantastic to get some time to relax, one of my goals of this trip was to keep it pretty easy going, I didn't want to rush through really fast like I did in Europe.

Seeing as I had no transportation, there was no restaurant in the hotel and my bike needed to kept overnight at the dealer, I just ordered Dominos for dinner. It was actually better than I was expecting!

Tomorrow I'm off to La Grande!