It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Sunday, 22 May 2011

Cape disappointment state park

Fri 20th May
Just about on the Oregon border now, 85 miles today, pretty easy going, road hugs the pacific coast so great wafts of briny sea air, felt quite zen like spinning along effortlessly mile after mile, met a Belgian guy going on the other direction and passed a group of Canadians, who are now camped at the same place , nice guys also going south so will prob bump into them along the route. Good to have a chat for longer than 5 mins, one of the challenges so far is the isolation of travelling alone through tracts of wilderness. Cape Disappointment State park is anything but btw , hot showers, deer wandering around , great sea views, lighthouse, all pretty great really. Highlight of the day, catching the mobile wood fired pizza hut before they closed , goats cheese special mmmmm


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