Total = 200.4 miles
Reminiscent of 'My Cousin Vinny', we had incessant train traffic near our camp all night. nice. still slept hard !
Today we rode from Castle Rock, WA to Cathlamet, WA, a ride of about 38 miles. We knew from our map that this would be a pretty hilly and challenging ride, but we set out to get it done after coffee and an early brunch stop. As expected, longer hills early on, but none too steep. In addition, we had numerous weather changes throughout the day; we had a pretty steady rain at one point. We stopped on a sweet downhill near Cold Creek to chat with a local rider named Art who was quite conversant in local bike touring tips. One thing we noticed along the way were the many small waterfalls coming down through the hills we were climbing. Lots of continued pretty and densely forested land.
Once again Susan did wonderfully with all the climbing and I have to say I'm very impressed with her improvement, thus far. We've gone five days now, not too many miles, but we've had lots of challenging riding to make up for it.
We ended up today at an RV park with cheap tent camping. We have been doing well thus far with cheap camping accommodations. we will enter Oregon in the morning for our first state line crossing and we expect to reach Astoria, Oregon by tomorrow afternoon. I have had a clothing malfunction over the last two days: my cycling shoes have begun to literally fall apart so I had to make an Internet order from REI to have new cycle shoes waiting for me at a bike shop in Astoria. No problemo.
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