I'm very excited about the impending release of the 2nd Edition of Biking Puget Sound. This time around its subtitle will be "60 Rides From Olympia to the San Juans," because I've added 10 new rides! Well, 11 actually, because one of the 50 rides from the previous book got completely changed.

For this new edition, I re-rode and re-researched all the rides (along with adding the new ones). It was great fun and good exercise! And I found so many more paved trails and bike lanes, that the rides are safer than ever.

If you did all the rides in this book, it would amount to:
* Riding more than 1,700 miles, covering 130 miles of the I-5 corridor and more than 50 miles east to west, from the Cascade foothills to the Olympic Peninsula.
* More than 83,000 feet of elevation gained (climbing).
* Visiting 116 communities, large and small and scores of parks and recreation sites.
* Visiting 11 islands.
* Visiting 9 counties.
* Riding on all the region’s major paved trails, 37 of them… not to mention hundreds of miles of bike lanes and other paved bike facilities.
* Riding 7 Washington state ferry routes – all but one in the system.

But the good thing is… you don’t have to do them all at once!

Some new features: rides connecting all the ferries in the Washington State Ferry system; an "Historic Seattle" ride that traces the bike route from the pre-automobile days; transit connections; route connection suggestions so you can link rides for tralning or multi-day tours; and online cue sheets.

Look for the new book later this fall, and also look for a publishing party, a series of "publishing rides" and maybe even some great Goodreads giveaways!