Monday June 1, 2015
A wet and windy night, so glad that we had a motel room. It was cool and foggy when we were ready to leave and it started to shower as the ride progressed. It was a wet ride.
The scenery was very pretty. The bridge leaving North Bend has no shoulder and is very busy, we knew about the bridge as Janet and Stephen are ahead of us and I keep checking their blog. They had written about the bridge and taken pictures. We opted to walk our bikes over the bridge, it did have a sidewalk, too narrow to cycle along. As we climbed out of North Bend the scenery changed again from sand dunes to forests. Due to the rainy conditions Ralf could not get his camera out of his handle bar bag and he couldn\’t take photos of the lovely areas we were cycling through.
The forestry area, is being clear-cut, but we did notice a lot of areas with new plantations. This area is primarily, cedar and pine trees, no beautiful redwoods here. The route was rolling hills and a couple of climbs, the scenery ranged from forests to sand dunes back to forests and back to sand dunes and lake areas.
We are staying with a warmshowers host just outside of Florence in a beautiful wooded area. We have our own room above the garage, he has a spare room in the main house, but another cyclist is occupying that (Trevor) he decided to stay an extra night because of the weather.
Chris had made us a great salad of kale, bacon and avocado for lunch. After we had settled in, I was able clean and dry the bikes and wash our cycle clothes.
Chris is a really interesting guy, we had a great chat with him during the afternoon and evening. He made us a lovely dinner of buffalo stew, asparagus and quinoa. That should keep us going tomorrow. Although the forecast is for more rain and cool temperatures, although the tail wind. Chris has offered to let us stay an extra night if the weather is nasty tomorrow. We really should keep going but the bikes are clean and we really do not like cycling in the rain.
No photos today due to the weather.