Starting location: Pacific Sunset Motel, Brookings, OR Ending location: The Palm Motel, Orick, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 649.1 This morning I was awoken by the sound of Harleys revving up. 6am. What the heck. What kind of biker gang wakes up at 6am?! They were actually not a biker gang, probably just a group…

Starting location: Battle Rock Motel, Port Orford, OR Ending location: Pacific Sunset Motel, Brookings, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 582.7 I woke up this morning, looked out the window and saw that it was raining again. As I checked out of the crappy motel, I met another cyclist, a pleasant older gentleman on his way…

Starting location: Umpqua River State Park Ending location: Battle Rock Motel, Port Orford, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 526.5 If I remember correctly from my Greek mythology, Achilles was held by his heel and dipped in the river Styx, which made him invincible everywhere except for his heel. This really has nothing to do with…

Starting location: Cape Perpetua Campground Ending location: Umpqua River State Park End of day cumulative mileage: 446.9 I woke up this morning to find that it had rained again last night. It was still drizzling a bit so I decided to sleep more. I ended up oversleeping and didn’t get out of camp until about noon.…

Starting location: Pelican Shores Inn, Lincoln City, OR Ending location: Cape Perpetua Campground End of day cumulative mileage: 395.0 There’s a couple of military acronyms that I really like. The first is SNAFU. It stands for Situation Normal: All F’d Up. That’s pretty much what the last few days have felt like. There’s been some sort…

Starting location: Somewhere on Meadowlake Road between Beaver and Portland Ending location: Pelican Shores Inn, Lincoln City, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 339.3 I had prepared myself for the possibility of some rough nights on this trip. I brought both my tent and my hammock in case I couldn’t make it to a motel or…

Starting location: Econolodge, Portland, OR Ending location: Somewhere on Meadowlake Road between Beaver and Portland End of day cumulative mileage: 269.2 (including STP miles) I woke up well rested enough to soberly think about the journey ahead. It’s about 800 miles to Davis. Most of that’s on the well traveled Pacific Coast Bicycle Route. I…

“That’s crazy!” That’s the response I get from most people when I tell them I’m planning to bike from Portland to Davis. I think that was pretty much the response of everyone except for my dad. My dad’s response was, “Hey, when are you getting married?” Which of course is his standard greeting whenever he…

But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! -To a Mouse by Robert Burns This was supposed to be an easy ride. 60 miles of biking on flat…