Day 4

I know you guys are searching for trying times and hardship -- maybe a bad day right of the start, but nothing doing on this cowboy's ride! (no, I'm not a cowboy and I don't think I really want to be one -- it was just something to say) We have been having GREAT weather -- I'm really working on my biker tan -- you know, just above the sock to just below the spandex - and just below the short sleeve (farmer style) -- of course the neck and the little slats the helmet makes on my forehead!

We are currently staying in Rickreall, OREGON -- but I've taken a Sunday (actually Thursday I believe) ride into Salem - about 10 miles away --- just to post on my blog! Well, that and go to the health food store. (10 miles back in a minute). We will be getting real close if not to Eugene , OR tomorrow (somewhere around 62 miles) and then another ride day before our rest day -- I can't wait -- however, I'm still psyched to ride.

We basically left the coast yesterday and have headed inland for good (until the Atlantic!) - yesterday had some very difficult climbs, but I struggled through them and had plenty of energy to set up my tent and sit around the fire (which probably doesn't take too much energy). The scenery has been great -- the route take us of highway as much as possible and we'll ride some scenic roads that have little traffic - which rocks --- I'm about sick of all the logging trucks! Not that they crowd the road, but when they pass they huck big chunks of bark and lots of dust your way - not very pleasant.

I've got to jet --- sorry no pictures today -- I left my things (camera included) back at the camp in Rickreall.

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi