[Six months later I'm coming back to edit and fill in all the missing blurb. Some days I was just too tired to blog, and preferred to prioritise the experience, rather than feeling pressurised to be recording it.] We decided to do a couple of short days ... so we wandered back down into …
Continue reading Day 6 – Port Orford to Gold Beach (short day in lieu of a rest day)
We decided to split proposed 90+ k day into two, which was probably a good thing because today's 46.5k became 55.6k, so we would have been creeping up over 100k (and one of those was enough!) While I'm a little bit worried about getting to SF with a few 50k days, it was good to …
This morning we rode a 20k return to check out Cape Arago. Sans panniers! That felt pretty good! First real look at the Pacific Ocean up on this hemisphere. Just finished lunch back at Charleston, panniers are locked and loaded and we're about to tackle the infamous (in cycling touring circles) Seven Devils …
Continue reading Day 4 – Charleston to Bandon (Cape Arago side trip)
Well that day ended up being about 20k more than I had initially planned! Now at Charleston, a little fishing village east (and a bit south) of Coos Bay. Smells like one too! But we got lucky with the motel booking - we've booked ahead a few nights over the long weekend. Didn't even care …
The plan was originally Winchester Bay, a bit further than Reedsport, but turns out it's Labor Day long weekend and it's pretty hard to find accommodation. (Also the highway is busier). Maybe we should have put back our trip another week. Anyway, we were lucky to find a room in Reedsport. Nothing much (but priced …
Busy day getting stuff sorted. Two trips out to Co-motion. Ended the day with a detour to check out the river and some more of Eugene's bike paths. Serendipity (ie. Marc deciding we should walk umpteen blocks to check out a different food strip that we saw earlier in the afternoon + me whingeing about …
Today was the big day. We drove out to Co-motion (not without me stuffing up the navigation AGAIN.) Saddles and seatpost on. A couple of rides and a couple of adjustments. A drive back into town to take back the hire car, visit the bank (a bit of lunch), and then the guy from Co-motion …
It's my fault we're not going to meet the new bike this arvo - I insisted that we should just 'duck into' downtown Portland city just so we could feel we'd kinda seen it. The consequent driving around looking for parking, then walking several blocks looking for food kind of chewed up time. (All this …
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