Looks like a groovy trip.....while looking at your photos I was wondering why I don't know any cool people locally who like doing this.... : ( I love conversing with like minded folks, campfires, good food, maybe a little live music, all that good stuff eludes me these days.
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 9:09:08 PM UTC-7, Andy Smitty Schmidt wrote: > > I went on my first bike "tour" this past weekend. "Mini-tour" is probably > more accurate as it was only 3.5 days/ 3 nights. I did ride in 6 counties > though, which makes it sound like I went further than I did. The route > began and ended on the light rail to bypass riding through 20 miles of > suburbs. From there my pedaling route was a loop out to the northern Oregon > coast. > > > This was a group ride that was organized by Portland bike camping > denizens, Cycle Wild. There were 11 of us on the trip but for one reason or > another I rode most of the first 2.5 days solo. > > > The route through the coast range was bucolic and largely uneventful. I > saw a deer crossing a river but the highlight was stumbling on to the lunch > stop for a home-brewed bicycle event called 'Couve to Coast. The CtoC > started a couple years ago as a family ride (they're a big bicycling > family) but now includes friends and co-workers. They were talking about > making a web site for next year and opening it up as a public event. They > invited me to share their impressive spread of food. Their generosity and > company was a nice slice of humanity of a day that was largely just me on > the bike pedaling through the countryside. > > > Tat evening the group re-grouped at Kate's house in the small town of > Wheeler, OR. Kate is a friend of some of the Cycle Wild regulars. Her house > was a perfect place for nearly a dozen road weary cyclists to shower, eat > pizza and stay up too late socializing. > > > I had only been on the coast highway a few minutes when I ran into my > first "real" bike tourist. She was a bubbly girl, probably in her early 20s > headed from Vancouver, Canada to San Diego, CA. She was riding a > non-branded lugged steel mixte that was probably older than her. She said > that other than the new tires/tubes the bike was as she bought it a couple > years ago for $100. > > > Once on the coast I went into "tourist mode"… stopping at nearly every > beach, overlook and landmark. My average speed dropped to something like > 5mph. There's some beautiful coastline out there. > > > > We camped the last night at the hiker/biker site at Cape Lookout State > Park. It was everything good I imagine camping with an 11 person group > tour like this could be… fire, stories, cards, and one of the women whipped > up some muffins cooked over the fire inside of orange skins. > > > The final day started early. The short mileage and gallivanting for a full > day on the coast was the reward, and we paid for it on the final day. > 90-miles and 6000ft of climbing later I was home and headed to the shower. > > > > graphic evidence > here<http://www.flickr.com/photos/15966859@N07/sets/72157631414832594/> > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/MSdhl2gvwhMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
