SHORT BIKE RIDES WESTERN WASHINGTON, 3rd Edition (Short bike rides)

Rating:
Summary: A short ride for this book
Review: Fortunately I only checked this book out from the library, but the condescending tone, vague directions and dining recommendations prompted me to review it here nonetheless. The snobbish tone pervades nearly all the ride descriptions, in turn disparaging tourism and tourists (I believe a cyclist would be a touring tourist!) and alternately being awed by Fort Worden as the supposed filming location of "An Officer and a Gentleman". She missed the correct attribution in the description of Fort Casey of course. Perhaps she was too distracted by the innkeeper's "(not a cyclist)" bathrobe.
Also take her "Eats" recommendations with a grain of salt. I'm certain that most of the fine dining establishments she suggests would not appreciate a sweaty textile athlete such as Wagonfeld dripping upon their tablecloth despite being clothed in "Capilene or Coolmax" as opposed to merely "plump and polyestered".
To be fair, I did get a couple of ideas for some new areas to explore with my bike, but it certainly won't be with her guidebook in my panier.