Oxbow, Oregon
(This post is written by Jarod)
So what an interesting last day in Oregon!! It all began at 6:00 AM where we awoke to what sounded like a hail storm smashing the tent! We all sat straight up in our sleeping bags wondering what in the world was happening. Chaz peaks his head out the door to find that our tent is surrounded by sprinklers. All of our cloths were hanging to dry and our bags just sitting right out in the open, for there was not a chance of rain that night. Chaz tells me that my bike and bags were just getting blasted so I jump out of my bag, run out of the tent where I totally trip and fall flat on my face in the wet grass. I get up and moved all of the bikes out of the sprinklers except Chaz's HAHA and it was just because his bike was covered in hanging clothes and looked way to complicated to move at 6:00 in the morning. While I was moving the bikes, a man came down and apologized and said that the sprinklers were set on a timer. I really couldn't say much too him other than "oh that's fine" because after all, we were camping in the day use area. So after laughing hysterically, we finally go back to sleep only to wake up to another lady at 6:30 AM! She screams "I hope you guys realise that your stuff is getting soaked, I hope you guys pay me my ten bucks for camping in my DAY USE AREA." She then left an envelope on my bike and rode off. This did nothing except made us even angrier at the whole situation. We all went back to sleep, again, and didn't wake up until about 8:30 - where again Chaz peaks his head out of the tent and Say's "guys! we need to get up, the girls already have there tent torn down and are ready to go." Its funny because that is exactly how it is every morning. The girls are always ready to leave before us, but we laugh about it. We decided that our groups are good together because they get us out of camp and we keep them on pace on the road. But anyways, we crawl out of the tent in between the sprinklers and begin to pack up. We pull our tent out of the sprinkler area to dry just after 9:00. Then, oddly enough the sprinklers just randomly shut off at exactly 9:11. They kept them on for 3 hours and 11 minutes and they shut off immediately after we move our tent out of the area.... seemed a little fishy to us.
After discussing all the nice "presents" that we could leave in the envelope and drop in the box, we decide its best to do nothing and just leave. When I say "do nothing" that obviously means do not pay.
We rode off around a dam, along a river, up a huge hill to another dam and finally to a huge lake in the middle of the mountains! Amazing. On the way, we come across about a 3 foot long snake sunbathing on the road. Obviously Chad, Chaz and I stop, start taking pictures and video's when it escapes in to the high weeds. We now could not find it so we started chucking rocks to find it. Chad thinks he spots it, so I chuck a rock and sure enough "hsssssssssssss!!!!!" We got it! We all just start chucking rocks, chad smacking with a stick haha... We may have gotten a little bit carried away. We now have all the weeds in the area flattened and the snake pinned under a rock. I got a huge boulder and chucked it and totally missed haha.. it was very funny. But we find more and kill it as Chad is just beating it time and time again with a huge stick. Cars driving by had to just think "what on earth is going on over there in the grass" haha. We were going to eat it for dinner, but since it was so early in the day and none of us wanted to carry a snake on our bikes, we decide to feed the fish instead. After riding several more miles, we go through a swarm of "bugs," where I say wow look at how many bugs there are. I then hear Chad scream "These are not bugs, these are BEE'S! We all kind of panic and just zoom out of there. It was crazy ow many bee's there were! We ride on across the lake and stop for lunch at a little cafe on the lake. It was nice because it was just beginning to rain and all 8 of us were able to sit inside and actually order food from a menu and be waited on for once. After Chad, Chaz, and I ate a double burger, fries and beans, the waitress tells us that for 2 bucks, she will make us a cone as large as she possibly can. How can we say no to this? We let her make these cones and WOW, she sure did fit a lot of ice cream on these cones. As we were eating our cones another group of 4 guys from Seattle roll in. They were riding the same exact trail across America as we were! We talked about our trip a bit as we ate our cones, finished, and then headed out. Bad timing on bloating ourselves because we now had a ridiculously long hill to climb, 7 miles long. The uphill is always hard work, but the down hill always makes it worth it, although this time we had to ride down hill in rain. the hill drops us right in to a small town where we take a little break and eat a little snack. We pack back up and ride on the final 20 miles of the day to a town called Council. The last several miles we had to pick up the pace in order to beat a storm that seemed to be following us but we were successful and were able to set up camp in the local park. We all decided that a "family" dinner would be fun so we headed to the grocery store where the girls got all the stuff to make burritos. We went back, the girls cooked as Chad, Chaz and I did what we could to help them (which was hardly nothing at all, they had it under control, I think we just were in the way), so really we just sat and watched. The burritos turned out AMAZING! Like every bit as good as Chipotle, if not better. We all bloated ourselves, once again - then moved on to desert. The first desert was watermelon followed by Chad, Chaz, and mine dessert surprise. Donuts that we covered in cookie doough. Wow, if you have never tried this, you need too!! We pretty much ate til we were sick then sat/laid around the rest of the night and just talked and had a good time. Finally found the ambition to get up and make our ways to the tents and pass out for the night.
After discussing all the nice "presents" that we could leave in the envelope and drop in the box, we decide its best to do nothing and just leave. When I say "do nothing" that obviously means do not pay.
We rode off around a dam, along a river, up a huge hill to another dam and finally to a huge lake in the middle of the mountains! Amazing. On the way, we come across about a 3 foot long snake sunbathing on the road. Obviously Chad, Chaz and I stop, start taking pictures and video's when it escapes in to the high weeds. We now could not find it so we started chucking rocks to find it. Chad thinks he spots it, so I chuck a rock and sure enough "hsssssssssssss!!!!!" We got it! We all just start chucking rocks, chad smacking with a stick haha... We may have gotten a little bit carried away. We now have all the weeds in the area flattened and the snake pinned under a rock. I got a huge boulder and chucked it and totally missed haha.. it was very funny. But we find more and kill it as Chad is just beating it time and time again with a huge stick. Cars driving by had to just think "what on earth is going on over there in the grass" haha. We were going to eat it for dinner, but since it was so early in the day and none of us wanted to carry a snake on our bikes, we decide to feed the fish instead. After riding several more miles, we go through a swarm of "bugs," where I say wow look at how many bugs there are. I then hear Chad scream "These are not bugs, these are BEE'S! We all kind of panic and just zoom out of there. It was crazy ow many bee's there were! We ride on across the lake and stop for lunch at a little cafe on the lake. It was nice because it was just beginning to rain and all 8 of us were able to sit inside and actually order food from a menu and be waited on for once. After Chad, Chaz, and I ate a double burger, fries and beans, the waitress tells us that for 2 bucks, she will make us a cone as large as she possibly can. How can we say no to this? We let her make these cones and WOW, she sure did fit a lot of ice cream on these cones. As we were eating our cones another group of 4 guys from Seattle roll in. They were riding the same exact trail across America as we were! We talked about our trip a bit as we ate our cones, finished, and then headed out. Bad timing on bloating ourselves because we now had a ridiculously long hill to climb, 7 miles long. The uphill is always hard work, but the down hill always makes it worth it, although this time we had to ride down hill in rain. the hill drops us right in to a small town where we take a little break and eat a little snack. We pack back up and ride on the final 20 miles of the day to a town called Council. The last several miles we had to pick up the pace in order to beat a storm that seemed to be following us but we were successful and were able to set up camp in the local park. We all decided that a "family" dinner would be fun so we headed to the grocery store where the girls got all the stuff to make burritos. We went back, the girls cooked as Chad, Chaz and I did what we could to help them (which was hardly nothing at all, they had it under control, I think we just were in the way), so really we just sat and watched. The burritos turned out AMAZING! Like every bit as good as Chipotle, if not better. We all bloated ourselves, once again - then moved on to desert. The first desert was watermelon followed by Chad, Chaz, and mine dessert surprise. Donuts that we covered in cookie doough. Wow, if you have never tried this, you need too!! We pretty much ate til we were sick then sat/laid around the rest of the night and just talked and had a good time. Finally found the ambition to get up and make our ways to the tents and pass out for the night.
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