Tag: Oregon
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Day 12 & 13
Earth Day was spectacular! Will write more tomorrow. (Tom didn’t know that the male turkey was called a “Tom”. We had fun with that. One of the bigger birds sited so far!)
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Day 10 & 11
Before yesterday is completely forgotten, we rode through a place that I didn’t know much about and am glad I looked up its history. Gardiner is located at the mouth of the Umpqua River just across the river from Reedsport. As we were descending into town, I noticed a fenced off area that looked like…
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Day 9
Grey whales. I feel like the last person on Earth who has never seen one. Until today. Three. Amazing. It was difficult to determine age, relationship, size, but they were doing the UW thing, pulling together. I don’t know whether they draft or use the power of the current from the lead whale, but from…
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Day 8
Our destination today is Washburn State Park between Yachats and Florence. Forecast is sunny, mid-60s with mild winds from the NW. Looks like a typical mid-April day along the Oregon coast. A few days ago I noticed some large basaltic rock exposed in some of the road cuts we rode through. I didn’t think much…
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Day 7
I was outed yesterday! Tom and I stopped at Neskowin for lunch yesterday. We probably should have gone to the beach because we didn’t see much beach from that point forward. While we were preparing to leave, a man driving a Subaru from Colorado approached us and said, “I used to do long distance riding,…
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Day 5 & 6
Astoria to Manzanita (Nehalem Beach State Park)Manzanita to Cape Lookout State Park Thank goodness for free hot showers in Oregon State Parks! The weather turned a bit cool and misty (and hilly!), so at the end of the day, I look for the trail to the showers. OSP has the whole hiker-biker campground thing down.…
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Day 4
Today’s ride was dedicated to the father of my former colleague and good friend, Piyu Roy, who passed away yesterday in India. For some reason, I never watched Part II of Ken Burn’s documentary about Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. What sticks out in my mind about Part I is…