port angeles again

cart's 2 cents
well here we are it's almost the end of august (the 29 or 30th) we've been on the bike portion of our trip for almost a week i suppose. We arrived in port angeles with much anticipation because i had a sleeping bag sent there. a new sleeping bag. my first one in 23 years. we went to the post office first office first off figuring we could grab the sleeping bag look around town and be on the road again later in the day. Well of course the sleeping bag hadn't arrived yet, so we waited an extra day. viola it was there the next morning when we arrived so we got of town and road toward the olympic national park where we knew there were hot springs awaiting. It was an easy 10 mile ride to the entrance of the park, and then a difficult 8 mile ride in to the hot springs - straight up the mountain. about 3/4 of the way up gretchen passed me in a van. She had some bike troubles down below and was coming to collect me. Well the troubles were somewhat fixable (i had to pound the dropout closed with a large rock) and we got back on the road up to the hot springs (which in the end turned out to be delightful) just the thing we needed after a long long climb straight up. then a 2.5 mile walk (again straight up) to the springs. we then had a great ride down the mountain to the park entrance where we caught the bus back to lovely port angeles (again) to have more exacting repairs done to gretchen's bike. now it's saturday of labor day weekend we are on our way to the farmers market to do some busking and then hopefully leave this town behind (again). They say it's been unseasonably rainy here, but were not sure if they tell that to all the tourists to get them to come back (after all there is a rainforest in olympic national park).