Thursday June 11, 2015

After breakfast, Art joined us and cycled out with us to Castle Rock. Art knows every stretch of the roads around here including each bump and narrow section to be aware of. He is an avid cyclist and will cycle every day in the summer. Today he rode home a different route a distance of about 40 miles.

We stopped at Vader for lunch and then carried on to Centralia. Vader was a prosperous lumber town at the turn of the 20^th Century. It met with disaster when Weyerhauser bought the mill and immediately closed it down. I guess that company hasn’t changed much in a hundred years. Although it was never proven local residents who now were unemployed bought insurance on their homes and then burned them to the ground.

The next small town we cycled through used to have a very large egg processing plant. Hence the giant egg.

Another rural day.

We couldn’t find a camp site to stay in Centralia, but we did find a Motel 6 advertising a room rate of $49.00, oops add on another $10.00 for the second person room in the and add taxes – total $69.00!!