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Around The Final Bend

Happy new year! it’s as much about endings as it is about beginnings. I got back to the San Francisco area on December 31st and now find myself trying to reflect on the past five months while also receiving the world at full speed. The numbers are straightforward at least. 15,823 miles in 139 days. 24 states, 9 days of riding in the rain, 2 rear tires, and one bear encounter. We only had one…

When It All Blurs Together

The Last of The Oregon Leg

So the Oregon leg of our trip is finally ending, and that is of course a mixed bag. We need to make our way across this big ‘ol country so we can see the northeast before things get cold. At the same time, Oregon has so much more to see.

We are already nixing Washington, and we’ve only scratched the surface of Oregon, but Yellowstone is calling and there is already snow falling in parts of it. So…

Hello all,

I didn’t get this finished in time to make it into our weekly email, but here is is just the same. We’re in Coos Bay, Oregon at the moment, about to run up the coast, across to Eugene, then to the Bend, OR area for a few days of exploring.

Klamath Falls certainly checked off the boxes, with a historic downtown, plenty of outlying communities, and a lot of nature. Coos Bay has much of…

Well here we are, Saturday and day 05 of our adventure. Things changed before they began. Due to the heat we decided to run up the coast to Eureka.

While I hate Hwy 1 in the summer (staring at the back of a car going 10mph under the speed limit can be done on the morning commute), the temps finally dropped from the insane heatwave we’ve been in the middle of. The views are also spectacular on…