SEATTLE — Nat Hong and Bob Barrett commute on Puget Sound by bike — water bike, that is — to their jobs in the Washington state towns of Bremerton and Steilacoom.
“This is pretty hard to beat in terms of a pleasant commute,” said Hong, who lives on Bainbridge Island and teaches at Olympic College in Bremerton.
The drive would be 80 miles round trip. But with his water bike, the trip to work is just 12 miles — including one mile on the water.
Hong said he used to be irked because he could look across the water and see the place he worked.
“It needled and gnawed at me. The long drive didn’t make sense.” He began water biking in September.
