Ok, slight change of plan.
I met up with Andy, a friend of a friend, in Edmonds today (thanks for the Boddingtons, you northern monkey!) and apart from the beer he also passed on the sim cutter I ordered a while ago and had sent to his place. So that means I can now, and don’t tell the Feds, buy a pay-as-you-go sim card and cut it down to fit my iPhone4. Muwhaha! The simpletons, I shall fool them all!! But that means a slight detour into Seattle to buy the said sim card.
So here I am in downtown Seattle. I was going to leave it until I got further south to buy the card, but it was so close that it seemed foolish not to. My plan now is to get back on track by getting the train (do you see what I did there!?) to Centralia and rejoin the American Cycling Association’s touring maps to Astoria and the south. Yes, I could cycle it, but I’m not going to. So there!
It’s now beer o’clock in Seattle. Hurrah! I’m in a restaurant overlooking, I think, Puget Sound, that has served me a fabulous golden, summer ale not dissimilar to Summer Lightening, for all you English beer fans out there (a Hop Back Brewery production). They also fed me fish and chips which were less fabulous, but I wanted to sample their ‘famous’ fish and chips. Keep trying, chaps! (I can confirm, or rather my waiter confirmed, that it is Puget Sound).
I’m staying in a hostel called American Hostel or maybe it’s Hostile America, either way it’s my first hostel of the trip. In fact it’s my first hostel ever. I think I’ll camp. I’ve got a room to myself. I feel far too old to be sharing with excitable gap-yearers or wierdos! Of course, to the young eyes of the post-pubescent backpackers that bother these places, I am the wierdo. Wait till you get to my age, younglings, not so weird then will I appear to your eyes.
Love
Pete
Patagonia Pete 
I guess it was a good plan to shave the beard and remove the pebble glasses for the movie. Forget’ he who shall not be named’ check out the weirdo in row 8, scary!!
Hurrah! Glad you two managed to co-incide after all. Did you go to the first ever starbucks? Or the *FANTASTIC* mini cheesecake place a few doors down? There’d be some serious cycling fuel in one of them!
Hi Pete – I will get Savilles to source a HQ in The British Virgin Islands for us then whilst I develop the global business plan. The Summer Lightening sounds good – we had a Fullers evening in our local recently – top night with a 40min presentation from the head brewer followed by much tasting, in fact too-much tasting for a school night really, you must be missing a decent ale..?
Keep pedalling – regards – Cookie
We saw it in Boston. Very emotional scenes, uncontrolled sobbing from the back rows when Harry died (from the only person in the universe who didn´t know the plot).
If I´d known it was going to be Best Westerns, Summer Lightning, fish and chips and trains, I´d have signed up earlier…….any vacancies left??
he dies!!!!!!!
sorry Roy, didn`t know you were the second person in the universe bla bla.