Auburn - Orting - Carbonado - Buckley in the Drizzle

This was my second ride with the Randonneurs. The first 20 miles was on not-so-great highways, too much traffic. There were a lot of turns, and I didn't have a cue sheet holder. Won't make that mistake again. Had to stop for a bio break at one point, and nearly lost the group. The last 2/3 of the ride was great. I'd like to do it again sometime with Cath and friends. Carbonado was really something. They're sort of trying to be an old cowboy town, but on this drizzly day in early Feb, it was a lost cause. The back roads were great for riding. Riding through Buckley brought back memories of some volunteer work with friends back in high school, and visiting my cousin - my age - who was committed there long ago. Strange and scary place.

Was pretty chilled at the end of the ride, but had some fast food and jumped in the car to head to Snoqualmie to meet Ruth. If you're looking at the map for this one, you'll see that I accidently messed up with the GPS. I should have reset it after my return to Auburn, but instead it picked back up the trip once I got to Snoqualmie. Garmin doesn't give me a way to delete the last segments from the trip. Hopefully I'll figure out how to do that and fix this post. In the meantime, just ignore anything after the return to Auburn.