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 big hill of the day) in the pouring rain. The only fun part about the ride was going through a small town right on the edge of the ocean and as you get close to the cliff edge a giant wave comes up and splashes you. Quite cool since I was already soaked from the rain.
As we came into Newport we caught up with Bryan, Maggie and the new friends we made at Pacific City, at the local bike shop. While getting our bikes tuned up by the awesome staff we decided to skip the campground 5 miles up the road and stay in a motel for the night. After some sweet talk we got the guy down to $55 for the four of us in a large enough room for three beds and our bikes. We hung up the tents to dry (finally), did laundry, ate food and went to sweet sweet sleep in real sheets on a real bed. Lovely.
