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I have a little craft project I want to do, and I wanted to buy materials from a business that isn't gross, so I decided to ride my bike to Michael's in the Interbay neighborhood.
"Neighborhood" is a bit of a misnomer: the area has a whole lot of industrial, marine, and large retail businesses, plus a freight railyard and golf course. The residents of any of the nearby homes could credibly claim to live in Queen Anne to the east or Magnolia to the west; that's what I'd do if I were trying to sell such a place. If you live just north of Interbay, I'm pretty sure your place is a (house?)boat.
So you might expect that with a different kind of neighborhood comes a different kind of bike trail. Sure enough, once you get away from the ship canal there are tents, street art, a train carrying several 737 fuselages, a small unofficial skate park made from Jersey barriers, and a bunch of jogs and bends that aren't too well marked. There's even one section that's so narrow, and boxed in by two fences, that there are signs telling cyclists to dismount.
I ended up riding past the former site of theWet Spot CSPC, now a storage facility. Sadness.
The ride is mostly lovely all the way from the ship canal to pier 91 on Elliott Bay, but I didn't want to go to Elliott Bay, remember? I wanted to go to a store whose access, like the others, is on Elliott Ave. That means riding your bike over the train tracks on one of two or three viaducts that were so not designed with bikes in mind. I'm glad it was Sunday morning and therefore traffic was light.
Stopped for groceries next to the canal. Cranked up the hill half a mile home. Uff da! But there was a vegan club sandwich at the end of it.
"Neighborhood" is a bit of a misnomer: the area has a whole lot of industrial, marine, and large retail businesses, plus a freight railyard and golf course. The residents of any of the nearby homes could credibly claim to live in Queen Anne to the east or Magnolia to the west; that's what I'd do if I were trying to sell such a place. If you live just north of Interbay, I'm pretty sure your place is a (house?)boat.
So you might expect that with a different kind of neighborhood comes a different kind of bike trail. Sure enough, once you get away from the ship canal there are tents, street art, a train carrying several 737 fuselages, a small unofficial skate park made from Jersey barriers, and a bunch of jogs and bends that aren't too well marked. There's even one section that's so narrow, and boxed in by two fences, that there are signs telling cyclists to dismount.
I ended up riding past the former site of the
The ride is mostly lovely all the way from the ship canal to pier 91 on Elliott Bay, but I didn't want to go to Elliott Bay, remember? I wanted to go to a store whose access, like the others, is on Elliott Ave. That means riding your bike over the train tracks on one of two or three viaducts that were so not designed with bikes in mind. I'm glad it was Sunday morning and therefore traffic was light.
Stopped for groceries next to the canal. Cranked up the hill half a mile home. Uff da! But there was a vegan club sandwich at the end of it.
