USA | Sunday, 27 Oct 2013 | Views [251]
http://erinplusrigel.blogspot.com/2013/10/malibu-rv-park.html
USA | Saturday, 26 Oct 2013 | Views [224]
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USA | Friday, 25 Oct 2013 | Views [212]
October 25
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USA | Thursday, 24 Oct 2013 | Views [269]
October 23
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USA | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013 | Views [401] | Comments [1]
Monday October 21
We made it out of the Big Sur area and expected to find some grocery stores to restock our food. Nope. Closed, and small towns. Dam! We should've stopped at the Hearst Castle (largest private collection of ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013 | Views [399]
Friday October 18, 2013 - Monday October 21, 2013.
Big Sur is not as bad as it sounds. It is named after the river, not the mountains. That being said, our ride through the park was a lot of going up above the foggy clouds, back down through ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013 | Views [351]
Thursday, October 17:
A big ride today. We discovered "moss landing" which is in amongst the farmers fields we were riding through. Wow! What prices on produce. Incredible. 3 red peppers for a dollar. 10 mini artichokes ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013 | Views [361]
October 16th,
We got a couch to stay at! Super lucky. Was a long, very hot ride in partially urban settings. Going thru Santa Cruz on the number 1, the highway became a freeway at some point which apparently means no cyclists. ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 22 Oct 2013 | Views [390] | Comments [2]
October 22nd, 2013
Some parks have all the amenities. Hot, not warm, showers. Electricity. Fresh clean water. Grass. Tress.
San Simeon had warm needle showers that tried to pierce your skin. Fortunately, after ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 17 Oct 2013 | Views [318]
San Francisco is hilly. Not too bad in the city, but definitely around the city. It is also a very very popular tourist destination. There were a ton of people there taking photos and riding bicycles on the sea wall. The ride ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 17 Oct 2013 | Views [385]
Monday, October 14:
We headed south through the valley and Fairfax on a slow incline hill after our night in the redwood forest. Once we crested the hill, the ride down was FAST and very steep but the trip quickly became an urban one. ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 16 Oct 2013 | Views [303]
Sunday October 13th,
With Rigel's chain being a bit weak we rode to the closest bike shop which happened to be in Point Reyes about 30 miles away. I rode a good portion of the way by myself as I missed the picnic tables on the side of ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 16 Oct 2013 | Views [314]
Friday October 11th,
Since the books day was extremely hilly and accounted for about 60 miles we decided to cut it a litte shorter and end up at one of the many campgrounds dotting the final 20 miles of the day. We road by the road we ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 16 Oct 2013 | Views [327]
Thursday, October 10th,
We set out from Van Damme around 9 ready for a hilly ride, and a hilly ride we got. It was absolutely stunning the whole way. I described it as a deluxe prairie as on the left there were grassy hills dotted ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 16 Oct 2013 | Views [319]
Saturday October 12th,
Since Bruce and Lynn were leaving their house by 7 it was an early morning for us. Luckily we didn't have a tent to take down or sleeping mats to roll, all while our hands and feet are freezing from the brisk clear ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [392]
October 8th,
We had planned a rest day today but with the wind being so windy, we decided to move on. Bryan and Maggie left early, whereas Rigel was quite sore from the day before and I wanted to paint the amazing view that I woke up to.... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [331]
October 7th,
Leaving Richardson Grove it was time to start the ride of the highest hills yet peaking at 2000 feet. We sarted at around 1000 feet and went up and down for some time before reaching Leggett. Here we took the turnoff ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [389]
October 6th,
The morning we wild camped we packed up quickly and made it out to the road without any issues. We continued along the Ave of the Giants until Phillipsville then crossed over back to the 101. We didn't stay on it long ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [352]
October 5th,
Getting an early start at the KOA we headed to Eureka to stock up on our staple foods and explore the well kept Victorian homes. We found a great (although expensive) natural foods co-op so we were able to stock up on our ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [440]
October 4th,
With the knowlegde of bike shops in both Arcata and Eureka, we got an early start riding out of Elk Prairie (even having a yummy breakfast at a small cafe in Orick). We decided to not circle back north out of the campground and ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [360]
October 2nd to October 4th 2013
Obama was lambasted by congress on october 1st and couldn't pass his new budget. We were hoping it would be temporary because Oregon's Redwood state and national state parks was federally run and therefore closed.... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [254]
October 1st,
We were set to finally hit the redwood forest. Mill creek campground awaits us! We started late having done laundry in the morning, but only 30 miles or so to go. We made it to Crescent City by 3:30 or so and were looking ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [362]
Monday September 30th
The weather turned in our favour! After a couple days without us, Maggie and Bryan apparently decided to ride with us (more so, Bryan decided to ride with Erin instead of Maggie, and Maggie continued not waiting for anybody ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [352]
September 27th to September 29th.
We had a plan to stay at Sunset state park and then go to humbug the next night. We didn't make it to where they stayed though (and missed out on dinner i hear) but the next night we had planned to meet at humbug ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 10 Oct 2013 | Views [375]
September 26th
We stayed at Honeyman State park next to the dunes and woke up in our forest gloom. The trees keep out the sun, and so, even though it was clear, the dew and condensation from breathing thru the night really builds up on the tent.... Read more >
USA | Friday, 4 Oct 2013 | Views [362]
Wednesday October 25,
Finally a break in the rain!! The ride started out uphill, of course, then went through a tunnel and then more uphill on the edge of a steep cliff but topped off at a sea lion cave, where I was able to sample fudge and ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013 | Views [322]
September 24th,
It was sad to leave the wonderful walls and heat of the motel but with a bundle of muffins and bagels from the free breakfast we started pedalling again. And then it started raining, again. It seemed like we couldn't ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013 | Views [316]
Just a quick hello to say we are okay.
We will be posting blogs for: Pacific City, Newport, Washburne state park, Honeyman State Park, Coos Bay, Humbug mountain state park and Harris Beach State park shortly. Unfortunately, the federal ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013 | Views [273]
September 23,
The ride to Newport started out nice and cloudy but soon turned into a rainy mess. Going through Cape Foulweather made that quite clear when we decided to ignore the route guide and stay on the 101 going up a huge hill (second ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 22 Sep 2013 | Views [332]
Nehalem to Tillamook was a rainy adventure. Tillamook is a centre of bovine based agribusiness. That is to say, we bought jerky and went on cheese and wine tours at the Tillamook cheese factory and the Blue Heron winery. Yum!! ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 19 Sep 2013 | Views [319]
Yesterday we took to some giant hills on our way to meet up with Bryan, Maggie and Kirsten for Kirsten's last couple nights with us. We were supossed to camp at Oswald West State Park but they have shut down the campground in the last couple years ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 19 Sep 2013 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Tuesday, 17 Sep 2013 | Views [355]
"If you want to be seen, you go to Cannon Beach. If you don't want to be seen, you go to Gearhart. If you want to be obscene, you go to Seaside." This is what our couch surfing host told me last night. Seaside is the tourism town in ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 15 Sep 2013 | Views [310]
Hello Cape Disappointment! This is our final state park in Washington before heading over the Columbia River and into Oregon. Nothing too disappointing here except the giant hill to get up here. Rigel and I left Twin Harbors Saturday morning around ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 11 Sep 2013 | Views [335]
We did not end up riding in the dark back to camp at Potlatch as the fellow Bryan, Maggie and Kirsten were staying with gave us a ride in a truck back to our tent. Alex seems to entertain himself now fishing, but is a retired security agent "for ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 9 Sep 2013 | Views [356]
(Rigel Writing) In Townsend we stayed at the camp ground in town at an old Fort. The boat festival in town was a good excuse to rest without covering much distance. There was dancing, big wood boats being shown, and a whole fair. We camped ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 6 Sep 2013 | Views [334]
Rigel Here: "It rained, and it rained, and it rained. Never in all his life, and he was 4 was it? or 5? Never, had piglet seen so much rain."
Two nights ago there was a lightning storm and it lasted an hour and was spent. The sky cleared ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 5 Sep 2013 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Thursday, 5 Sep 2013 | Views [458]
We started the trip Tuesday Sept 3 by taking an 11am ferry from Tsawassen to Victoria and then in the evening from there to San Juan island.
The customs officers pre-screened us in Victoria and there we got another cursory conversation on the island ... Read more >
Tags: underway! cycling
CANADA | Monday, 2 Sep 2013 | Views [517] | Comments [1]
(From Rigel's PoV)
Starting mid June Erin and I came to Vancouver after a short stop in Calgary so I could see family that I haven't seen much in the last few years. My nephew, Zen, turned 5 this July and I guess I visited him about 10 times ... Read more >
Tags: preparations
