Day 7 road 30 miles and caught the ferry to Victoria BC!

We woke up early again, in hopes to miss the majority of the logging trucks, there was a 10 mile stretch around crescent lake that was windy with a very small shoulder. We lucked out and the majority of the logging trucks were west bound! We stopped at the crescent lake lodge.. Highly recommend checking the lake out! We finally had to say goodbye to the beautiful scenery of the Olympic National park and move onto different beautiful scenery!! We caught lunch in Port Angeles at the Ovenspoonful... Very delicious! Then hopped on the ferry headed to Victoria BC! Once we found the hotel, we dropped the bikes, and showered :) then walked along the pedestrian path and had dinner at a fun gastro-brew pub on the water! Then turned in for the night.

Day 6 and 67 miles conquered!

We woke up early again to get a head start with plans to stop in Forks for lunch. Things were going great nice rolling hills, a few little climbs and then Kayleen got her second flat about six miles from Forks. It took two tire changes because her extra tube was too small....oops! We had lunch at Pacific Pizza, it was so good we all ate way too much, and were hoping that there were no big climbs soon :) we were all so excited to be in the city twilight was based in.... Not!! By the second half of the ride the sun came out and warmed us up. We climbed to over 1100 feet and then had a nice long downhill which ended at our campsite at Lake Crescent, the lake and surrounding areas are beautiful, and we were all looking forward to a short ride to Port Angeles and a rest day in Victoria BC!

Day 5 road 66 miles!

The previous day had been so warm so we decided to takeoff early and beat some of the heat! And that we did, a little too well (it was quite chilly:) the ride from Hoquiam to Lake Quinalt was great nice slow rolling hills, we had conquered 40 miles before noon! We had lunch at a place on the side of the road, and went to the convince store to pickup dinner... Not a lot of options. By the time we got back on the road the sun was out in full force. Sally got her first flat about 6 miles from the camp site. These last five days we had only seen bikers going the opposite direction, but today while Sally was fixing her flat we met 2 guys who were going the same direction! The campsite was subpar, it was on the beach, but way too crowded. So it was early to bed for us!

That's the bottom seem of my Mtn Hardwear tent that mom is putting her head through!, it just  fell apart!

South Beach

Day 4 easier day road 38 miles!

Woke up and hade breakfast at the Chinese restaurant attached to the hotel, didn't have a plan for our ride so we devised one at breakfast... Ride to Hoquiam and camp for the night. We got on the road late in the am, and it was a scorcher... 94 degrees! Needless to say none of us had to pee at the end of the day... With all the sweating we had done!! We had a shorter ride so we got to the campground early, made dinner, and planned for day 5!

How mom ends each day ...she doesn't know how she does it

Day 3 and 65 miles

Day 3:  we took off from the camp ground in a light drizzle, but it soon stopped.  We had brunch at pig n pancake and then over the bridge to Washington.  It was steep and heavy traffic due to construction, not pleasant!  We did get a large part of the bridge to ourselves, at least for a little while. The ride into Washington was beautiful and relaxing.  We stopped at the site of Lewis and Clark end of journey.  We had our first mishap on the bikes with Kayleen's flat tire.  She did an awesome job changing it thanks to Matt's tutorial the night before.  We ended the day at Chen's motel and restaurant after 65 miles.  Nice and relaxing.

2nd day 48 miles down!!!

Shorter day than the 1st! Continental breakfast with apple sauce and pre-packaged Danishes was supplemented by cold pizza from the night before. We took off from Tillamook and road to Rockport beach were we had 2nd breakfast at Cow Belle cafe :), after that we shipped off to Canon Beach, the ride was beautiful! Up along one of the ridges we road up there were gorgeous views of the beach and Oregon coastline. Once we hit canon beach we stopped in at Ravens pub had a beer and late lunch! We only road 8 miles after that to our campsite in Seaside, it was chilly! Down jacket and fire came in handy!

first day was challenging but fun.  We took off around 9 and spent a lot of time being fooled by google bike map.  It took awhile to get out of Portland and some difficult climbs.  Once on the road it was pretty.  The weather was perfect, cool with a light breeze.  We went through Tillamook forest, which is gorgeous, but with a good climb of 1600 feet.  Downhill was awesome.  Because of some twists and turns we did not reach Tillamook until 9pm.  At that point we had gone 92 miles and were ready to stop.