The fog quickly became our uninvited companion.

It’s not very pleasant to put on bike shorts in the morning and to realize they didn’t dry after having washed them the evening before (it’s cold enough already!).

The lady at the entrance of the Sunset Bay State Park told us it had been foggy “for the last four days”… but a few days later we understood she really meant “for the last four days, and the four days before that, and basically all summer long it will be foggy”.

She assured us that Sunset Bay had awesome sunsets, and we have to agree: imagination surely is a powerful thing.

At the campsite we met with Ian, who’s traveled Canada from east to west and is now heading south (maybe to San Diego?).

Dinner was short and quick, we wanted to go to bed early and start riding early as well: we realized that leaving late in the morning (sometimes afternoon) meant arriving at sunset and thus not really having time for ourselves or to enjoy the place we arrived to. Furthermore, our legs (and bums) were tired of riding, and we hadn’t found a comfortable feeding pattern (too much, not enough, too often, not often enough). It was slowly taking a toll on our stress levels, and we were becoming cranky.

The simple solution we found (although it took time to implement it) was to wake up and leave earlier: that way we would have some more resting time in the afternoons to relax, read our books and enjoy, a nice reward that improved things considerably.

Distance covered: 139.7km

Total distance so far: 1303km

Next, we rode through Gold Beach, and stayed at the Hunter Creek RV Park. We were pretty cold, so we decided to do laundry and stay with the dryers while having tea. The camp site was in front of a big rock that was supposed to look like a turtle (not sure about that one). A lady who came to the laundry room explained to us that most hippies moved from California to Oregon, and that Oregon was a much nicer state to live in because “the state did more for its people” and because it wasn’t so money oriented. We’ve heard that a few times over the trip, the funny thing is that none of them want to move from California either. We left early the next morning.

Distance covered: 100km

Total distance so far: 1403km

We surely didn’t expect the Oregon coast to be that cold in summer. Somehow we had thought, for some silly reason, that it would be really warm. As the days went by the fog and the wind made sure we got that false idea corrected.

We stopped at Crescent City, had one of the best pizzas ever at King Pizza, and continued a few miles to a camp site that ended up being a “primitive camp site” with no hot water… so we decided to bike back to Crescent City, and stay at a Motel that advertised having a sauna (after all we were really cold). The sauna was … cold. Disappointed, we went to sleep and prepared for the next day.

And… the next day we made it to California!

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