So today did not start out well at all, with a hard rain and cloudy skies for miles in every direction, moral went down a little. We crawled out of the tent and started to pack up, but it started to rain. To make a long story short, it stopped raining, camp was packed up, thank you note left, and saddled up again to keep on keeping on.
Now this is when the day went from the worst day to a pretty good day. We will give you a progress update blog later, but this is where it all started. We started riding and saw a sign down the road....BAKERY! We had to stop to see...we love donuts. It's a good thing we did because one of America's best donuts is made here. This will all be laid out in our blog about the best bakeries across America. You can thank us later for doing this for you. As we were enjoying some of the best donuts, an older couple was enjoying breakfast. They left and the the gentleman left a WHOLE piece of toast. But this was of no concern to the man who was busting the table. For Chad this was a big problem, and if you have not guessed it yet, Chad ate the toast off the guys plate.
If the day could not get any better, the sun came out and off came the warm clothes. The ocean never looked better with sun glistening and the white capped waves crashing on shore. It looked so good that every viewpoint we came to, we stopped, took pictures and talked to many different people. This caused a problem due to the fact that some view points were only a half mile from each other....and us behind schedule. We came to a tunnel just over 1/4 mile long that had lights for bikers that was activated by pushing a button like a cross walk. Now the excitement of the tunnel was short lived for a very long incline lay ahead. After a good 45 min climb, we reached the top to come to the best view point of our coastal adventure. It was here where we met an older man who has biked across America before. It was a privilege to talk to him and his wife.
From the viewpoint, we could see lunch, the only problem was it was a good 4 miles away and we were very hungry. When we came to the town it looked a little small and not much to eat at. The next town was a few miles down the road, so we took off down the road to get lunch. We arrived and found out that the town was a tourist town, very expensive. So we did the next best thing, found a bakery! We all had four donuts for lunch and it was amazing. Ya we kinda of have a donut problem.
The rest of day consisted of biking down the coast and riding into more rain. This led to cooler weather and a nice ride around the Tillamock bay. When we reached Tillamock, we started to look for a Safeway to buy dinner for the night. Dinner this night was one of the best the whole trip and only cost about $3 total for all three of us. The price went up when saw a huge sign the said fresh berries next right. We pulled in and what we found was some some of the best fruit in Oregon and very nice people. We have been so blessed to meet so many nice folks along our journey that have helped out in any way they can. Sheree and Dan own the double D fruit stand in tillamock and blessed us with some great deals. They cut the price for everything about half and then as we where leaving they gave us a of dented apples. We ate like kings for the first time on the trip. With a couple pounds of spaghetti from safeway, and red potatoes,oranges, and apples from the fruit stand.
Our camping destination was a little park on the mouth of the bay, another 10 miles or so. We came to the state park that we thought had camping, but it did not so we camped out unnoticed, in a little building. We will put pictures up ASAP of this, it's pretty funny were we stayed. After our great dinner we crawled in to the tent and journaled for a bit. In the morning we walked to the lighthouse at the end of the cape to see if we could see any whales in the bay, no luck.
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