Our final two days were filled with AMAZING food. Food already tastes better when you are outdoors, but add in six hours of spin-class-intensity exertion and every meal becomes the best meal of your life. Day 7's campground at Harris Beach was only a mile from Brookings which had a brewery and Thai food. Our …
Continue reading Bicycling the Oregon Coast: Humbug Mtn to Del Norte Redwoods – Part VI
From Sunset Bay Campground to Hwy 101 there are fifteen miles of rolling hills called the Seven Devils. Traffic wasn't too bad on this stretch, but the drivers were sometimes dangerously over-polite. They would cross the double yellow lines to give us extra space, but they would do this on sections with no visibility like …
Continue reading Bicycling the Oregon Coast: Sunset Bay to Humbug Mtn – Part V
By Day 4 we had a pretty good routine going: Get up at 7amMove the tent to a sunny spot to dry outEat cereal and drink two bottles of water to pre-hydratePack up camp onto bicyclesRefill Camelbaks and water bottlesExamine map and memorize first set of directionsPick cities where we will buy lunch and dinnerDepart …
Continue reading Bicycling the Oregon Coast: South Beach to Sunset Bay -Part IV
Day three contained the most miles and the most elevation gains. Cape Lookout SP to South Beach SP stretches 75 miles with over 4300 feet of elevation gain broken into three distinct climbs. We knew day three would be tough, so we mentally prepared and stashed our GUs in easy reach. We started with three …
Continue reading Bicycling the Oregon Coast: Cape Lookout to South Beach – Part III
To transport ourselves, our bikes and our gear, we took an overnight Amtrak train up to Portland. The sun came up as we crossed into Oregon, and the smoke from the California wildfires started to disappear. The scenery changed to trees in every direction with dozens of sparkling lakes and rivers adding color to the …
Continue reading Bicycling the Oregon Coast: Astoria to Cape Lookout -Part II
Wow, it has been over a year since my last post, but I finally have a new trip to talk about! We came back from our year abroad and I started a consulting job in San Francisco. After so much time off, I didn't feel like I needed PTO, but after a year or working, …
They've got trees and mooses and sled dogs, lots of lumber and lumber jacks and logs! Our adventure in the maple-leaf state began with a grizzly bear soon after the border. Aaron could have leaned out the passenger window and pet it, but he didn't. We got to Calgary and had some Canadian-Thai fusion cuisine: …
Glacier might be my new favorite US national park. It is green and gorgeous and filled with turquoise glacier lakes. It did rain for 30 consecutive hours, but I don't hold it against them. The rain exacerbated all of our gear failures: rainfly is no longer water proof, Aaron's mattress has developed a tumor, car's …
Land of geysers and bison--we saw them all. A white wolf even dashed in front of our car! Our second morning some departing campers gave us their bearspray and we are now prepared for a faceoff. Aaron has requested that we don't keep it in the tent because I am easily startled and trigger-happy. We …
We are back in America and it is good to be home. The signs are in English, and we are no longer beholden to crazy bus schedules because we have a car. We spent a week visiting with family then preparing for our camping trip. We multitasked that week and had a bout of bronchitis …
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