RSVP - Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party! is a two-day, 186 mile (299 km) bike tour from Seattle, Washington to Vancouver, British Columbia, along scenic backroads of Washington and British Columbia. One of the most anticipated cycling events in British Columbia, RSVP is held in August. The event is produced by Cascade Bicycle Club who also organize the Seattle to Portland.
For a number of years the RSVP ended during the Celebration of Light, a fireworks festival held in English Bay, Vancouver.
Famous quotes containing the words ride, seattle and/or party:
“For you alone I ride the ring,
For you I wear the blue;
For you alone I strive to sing,
O tell me how to woo!”
—Robert Graham (1735–1797)
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.”
—Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)