David

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Day 158: Portland

A very pleasant ride into Portland on the Historic Columbia River Highway, which is the first Scenic Byway. Much of the road is now cycleway and there are numerous bridges and waterfalls to

Day 156: Cascade Locks

Last night was camping primitive style. The evening's shower was a wet wipes affair and, in anticipation of an early start in the morning, bedtime was before cyclist's midnight

Day 157: Cascade Locks

Last night was camping primitive style. The evening's shower was a wet wipes affair and, in anticipation of an early start in the morning, bedtime was before cyclist's midnight

Day 153: Mineral Springs Campground

Nearly 100 miles of cycling and boy was it tough climbing over Blewett Pass (4,102ft), approximately 1000m climb that just kept giving for nearly 28 miles, having already cycled 60 miles. Then,

Day 152: Chelan

Woke to find five deer munching grass outside my tent. So to date, since leaving Vancouver, we have had two rainy days and to much relief, a non rainy day today. However, for

Day 151: Winthrop

Today was a very hard 105 mile ride over Rainy Pass (1,486m, 4,875ft, 1.11bn), and yes it lived up to its name, as we were both drenched by very heavy

Day 150: Concrete

So Sinclair and I found ourselves at the US/Canada border. I breezed through customs, whilst Sinclair was fingerprinted and interrogated. I waited outside, just in case they changed their mind, and got

Day 149: Vancouver

A day of delays. Mainly brought about my desire for good coffee and organic pastries and then dawdled along the Lochside Trail to Swartz Bay. Not because I desited to miss the 10

Day 148: Another Day in Victoria

More Eggs Benadict. Followed by leisurely cycle along coastal scenic drive: Then it was chores and rewards, to be honest, more rewards than chores. Followed by relaxation, beer and evening meal. So batteries

Day 146 Seattle (By Train)

Eggs Benadict to start, followed by bike maintenance (new chain and bike bag fitted), lunch, purchase of replacement tent pole, and then it was load up the bike for the short journey to

Day 145: Eugene

That's it, the cycling of the Trans Am Tour ends, as it must, for Bob L, Creed and David with a 79 mile cycle to Eugene! That makes just over 7,

Day 144: Florence

Spot the odd one out! So 81 days following our departure from the Atlantic Coast (Yorktown, Virginia) we all, with exception of Kelly (withdrawn), safely arrived at the Pecific Coast (Waldport, Oregon). This

Day 143: Salmonberry Campground

For many this was the penultimate day, as they are opting out of the ride from Florence to Eugene. I think that I may be repeating myself, but even though we only had

Day 142: Harrisburg

Suprisingly the rivers in recent weeks have all had what appears to be very high flow rates, especially as there sppears to have been little in the way of rain, and we are

Day 141: McKenzie Bridge

Just the other day I was thinking about the quality of each day's cycling on this Trans Am tour and could not recall any day that was less than very good

Day 140: Sisters (Rest Day)

It comes to something when getting up at 8am is deemed to be a lie-in! But, to be honest, I did think it was 9am, rather than 8. Stupid me! Otherwise, have had

Day 139: Sisters

So at last night's map meeting discussions were had with regards to our itinerary for the following two days: Either have two riding days of 40ish miles and stay overnight at

Day 138: Mitchell

A flying start to the day; I was on the road for 6.50am. My earliest start to a ride since I arrived in the USA. This occured because there was much gnashing

Day 137: Prairie City

So today's road is ... By the way, I saw neither Elk nor Horn, but I did see much in the way of scenery! Today's flower is orange: And we

Day 136: Baker City

It strikes me that stupid people come in many guises. One such genus of idiot has clearly identified themselves to me in recent days. Previously others have complained about these morons but, until

Day 135: Halfway

So today we found ourselves in Hells Canyon. However, although the temperatures were high they rarely reached the 120°f level that we experienced the other day. Yet, even in the shade, the