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Day -6-


Cape Lookout State Park to Carl Washburn State Park OR.
Early start in the fog, thick fog!! Like the kind you see in horror movies. We cleared it fast as we climbed straight out of the campground up the first of many hills to come.

The first part of the route today took us slightly inland through low land swamps and lakes, ascents up endless peaks, climbs easily 3 miles long or more. At the summit the road would wind around cliff faces cut into the rock giving us expansive views of the ocean and white sandy beaches to the south.

The roads narrowed and the traffic relented toward the last half of the day, the hills became rolling through scenic artsie towns. cafes, surf shops, art galleries and bus loads of tourists.

Breaking out of the tourist trap the road became more wild, rugged, weird prehistoric Forest and hundreds of bridges crossing streams and rivers. At this point we were counting on the food supply lasting the distance of the ride but as the donkey (the carrier of everything) I could tell my load was light. We ran out of food with about 20 miles to go and it all went down hill. Dave fell off the back and I had half a peanut butter sandwich which got me another 1 mile. Anne was the only one who kept it together, but she can do 100 miles on a spoon of oat meal.

Amongst the last of out gear I managed to fine one last GU which gave me the power to pull through to the campground.

We camped in the bush tonight across from the beach. To top if off Anne and I did a 3 mile hike with visiting friends and groupies, Brad and Caroline.
Total mileage today: 106

view from the road, long way down...

Anne and Dave riding over one of the many arch bridges.

starting the day, fogged in!!

Day -7-

REST DAY!!!!!
Kind of... We ended up riding south 45 miles. Carl Washburn State Park OR to Umpqua Lighthouse State Park.

The day started with some serious bike maintenance and about 4 cups of coffee. We decided we had a few miles we had to make up so we took an easy spin down to the next camp. Stopped along the way to look at a 100 and something old lighthouse, through a tunnel and around winding cliff roads.

We arrived at the camp, awesome spot near the river and just over the sand dunes from the surf. Brad rented a 4 person dune buggy and we took that for a burn but got it stuck twice!!

So far the day time temps have been really good for riding although the evenings are freezing and the mornings are cold especially in the fog, beats Vegas anyway!!

sand dunes were spilling onto the road!

Coffee shack, cos we needed it.

Haseta Lighthouse