it was a pretty long bus ride to Seaside, glad I decided not to ride it, mostly because I’d have to ride it again coming back east. I met two young fellows from the Netherlands on the bus. They were riding Oregon to Washington DC. There was also a fellow doing a month on the Oregon Coast trail. He said there was too much snow on the PCT this year.

Todays ride was about 45 miles. This is the area where Louis and Clark wintered, before returning east. Saw some sea lions and bald eagles. I stopped for groceries in Astoria. I got a portion of instant Mac and cheese for dinner. This was in homage to the book , “Miles from Nowhere”, where the author wrote about how much mac and cheese they ate when they first started touring. Hope to be more creative tomorrow regarding dinner.
The last few miles included some time on a fairly busy highway- route 30 between Astoria and Portland, not fun. In contrast, the campsite is next to a small river, called Gnat Creek. The man from the next campsite over told all kinds of fish stories about catching loads of giant salmon out of there. He reminded me of my brother, Jerry. The woman was telling me about all the extreme bike rides that she had done – including doing Seattle to Portland in one day, which is over two hundred miles.

So much more to report, but I only have enough energy to report the highlights.