News from Point Arena, CA

Friends: By the title, you can guess where Brian and I are now located. It was a challenging day in northern California, this Saturday, the 20th of May. The hills are delightful and we had the wind blowing from the south since a front is moving in. Also, today was big because we moved from our route of traveling US 101 over to California Route 1. We were welcomed onto 1 by a couple of huge hills, the biggest that we will see for the whole trip. Another awesome welcome present was seeing a little brown bear cub and its mama at the bottom of the first hill. It moved too fast to get a picture even though we had stopped our bikes. When the cub got scared and ran back into the woods, that is when the mama bear came out of the woods and onto the street. She was staring us down; straight up fierce looking. After a couple of seconds she was gone too.

Speaking of wildlife, I forgot to mention that when we traveled through Depoe Bay, Oregon on Day 6 we saw a whale. After all, Depoe Bay prides itself on being the whale viewing capital of Oregon. Seeing the whale was sweet because, come on, it's a friggin' whale. And seeing the bears were amazing too because, well come on, they are friggin' bears.

Another important thing we failed to mention is that when we stayed at Honeyman State Park on Day 6 there were showers at this campsite. Thus, we took our first showers for the first time in a week. Despite the fact that we didn't have any soap or towels, and rather had to use paper towels to dry ourselves off, it was a revolutionary experience. Things that we had been seeing for the past 7 days even looked different colors now that we were clean!