We started riding at 7am today and found a hotel to stay at in Salem, Oregon at 7pm: We rode nearly 450 miles. I then had a shower, as did most others, and went for a Mexican. It’s now 9pm and I’ll go to bed soon as we start again at 7am tomorrow.
Interesting day, or some of it was. Initially we rode for about 100miles alongside the Pacific going North in California. The road and views were nice but it was quite cold and it got bleaker the more North you went – just look at the breakfast joint we went to in the picture album. We then started going inland towards Oregon. A lot of this ride and that up the Pacific was through a vast redwood forest. Trees, trees and more trees. But the whole size of this quite natural forest is vast – hundreds of square miles.
Oregon proved pleasant to start with and very ‘TV’ American: Flags flying, pick-ups everywhere and trailer parks by the road. Plus wide open spaces. We then crossed a plain on an interstate to get to Salem – we did 150 miles on a dead straight road! Really. It was boring but necessary to move us quickly towards the Canadian border which we’ll get to tomorrow evening via a stop at mount St. Helens. An active volcano.
I’ll probably edit this post later as it’s a bit rushed – I’m quite tired – and it doesn’t give a full flavour for what I saw today.