Welcome Home Sandy! What a warm and well deserved welcoming you received on your island ❤️. You did an amazing adventure and did it so very well. Again, what a treat to have met you along your way.

Yelling yahoos... Yup... I can't hear well anyway, and when someone yells anything at me, I wave enthusiastically and grin like they had just tossed me a $20 bill. Probably more effective than screaming obscenities and firing a finger the way most of the guys seem to respond.

Sandy, are you home? Inquiring minds want to know!

You have not posted in a few days now and that is unlike you. I hope your are just taking some down time and enjoying where you are. But I have been just a touch concerned.

Scott is correct. It looks like probably a western spotted orb weaver.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/123713-Neoscona-oaxacensis/browse_photos?place_id=46

With its web on milkweed seed pods and blackberry briars.

A garden spider of some kind, probably an orb weaver. There are over 3,000 species of orb weavers worldwide and they’re not my specialty so that’s as far as I can take it. Bill will probably know.

Yes and Henry makes quite a ruckus! You’ll have to come to Lummi Island and Peter will make you bean soup. Or the next time we’re camping near Milwaukee!

I’ll be home Sunday. Peter’s going home on Saturday. We couldn’t get a camping spot in shooting fistic home but I can camp at a state park as a cyclist.
Peter’s soup was so good! If you ever come visit me, I’ll ask him to make it for you.

Ed- you have family all along my route. They live in beautiful places. Have fun with your kids and grandkids!

We are still on our little journey and camping is not allowing much wifi strength. So I am not able to see all your photos for read most of your post. Therefore, I will pick it up and finish your journey after we have finished ours this next weekend. You are doing, and have done an awesome trip and I only wish I could have such a bike tour. Until later — adieu until then.

What amazing memories you are making! Having Peter and Henry as your welcome home greeters brings a smile to my face. Im sure it cheers you up after a hard day of riding. I wonder if I ask Mr Hornik if he would make me some bean soup. Peters looks delicious!

That soup looks delicious!

You’re almost home. Maybe another week?

You were close to my niece's home here.

So true. You get a lot more detail and sensory input on a bike. You’re lucky if you smell honeysuckle or lodge pole pines in a car. And you don’t hear the birds or the cows or the crickets or the frogs.

Thanks for straightening that out for me!