Mt. Vernon Tulip Ride
Club members decide to ride from Mt. Vernon to La Conner
to check on the tulip harvest delayed by the cold winter temperatures.
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Going out of town, we make a quick stop at a local cyclist's farm
to view his new baby piglets, only a few months old.
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From the farm we continue south along Dike Road
past farms along the Skagit River.
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All the way we see plenty of plants beginning to bloom,
but nowhere do we see any tulips.
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As you can imagine after ten to twenty miles, riders began
to question whether any tulips made it through the harsh winter.
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We have now turned north again and are almost to La Conner
so all begin to forget about tulips and start thinking about lunch.
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La Conner was packed with other cyclists, all doing what we were,
so finding a place to stop for snacks was not an easy task.
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After a little relaxation and fun, we decide to forget tulips
and check out La Conner's famous wild turkeys.
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On the return to Mt. Vernon, we finally found a few fields of tulips.
Not as many as in past years, but there were tulips and lots of tourists.
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After a brief stop to look at this year's harvest, we headed
back to the start taking a shortcut up along the river.
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We take a last break along the river looking at the scenery
and then call it quits, another yearly tulip ride is at an end.
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