Author: Michael Durham

These beautiful flowers are in found small patches at various places along the coast.  Because of the local drought, every thing else is brown so they really stand out in contrast.  At first we thought the were fake because of their unusual location and the fact that they are in full bloom going into October.… Continue reading Fort Bragg to Gualala, Ca

It feels great to have a day off and not worried about how many miles to go today.  I got to ride around town doing tourist things in Fort Bragg like finding the monument to the largest redwood ever cut (above) or riding down the flat beach bike path (below). I called ahead a week… Continue reading Fort Bragg rest day

Before I start on today’s ride let me mention a couple things about our SAG.  Not only did the surprise visit by my brother Bob result in carrying our gear on the three hardest days of the trip, he added two bonus actions that go way beyond just a SAG.  He arranged ahead of time… Continue reading Redway to Fort Bragg, CA

The quiz today is where does the word sag come from?  To a cyclist it’s a word common in his vernacular and knows what it means and that it can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adjective.  However, when I told my visiting brother that he could be our sag, he didn’t… Continue reading Eureka to Redway, CA

Today’s puzzle from the picture above is called “Where’s JD?”. When I would tell people that we were going to stay in Klamath, nobody had heard of it.  This surprised me because I had heard about it for quite a while.  We’ll it turns out what I was thinking about was Klamath Falls, OR.  Klamath,… Continue reading Klamath to Eureka, CA

I posted before dinner last night so I need to add two things.  One was a beautiful sunset through the trees.  The second is a big shoutout to Pacific Sushi in Brookings.  What a great surprise to find a place in a small town that had some of the best and freshest sushi we have… Continue reading Brookings, OR to Klamath, CA

Another beautiful day in paradise.  Because of the extensive Oregon sunshine, we had to go to the store last night to restock on sunscreen.  We had only 30 miles today so we had a long breakfast and didn’t hit the road until nearly 11. One of the many beautiful beaches below, but the sharks at… Continue reading Gold Beach to Brookings, OR

Woke up to another beautiful morning with a great view from the room. We ran into Mark and Deb from Toronto at breakfast again as well as down the road today.  Our cycling clocks are in sinc. A cranberry bog here in the world capital of cranberries.  Who knew. The riding on the coast with… Continue reading Bandon to Gold Beach, OR

Another beautiful day along the Oregon Coast.  We missed running into the Canadians at breakfast this morning.  They probably thought we were stalkers, so maybe they are avoiding us. We started out the day on a long climb that made it difficult near the top to make the decision to divert off the road and… Continue reading Winchester Bay to Bandon, OR

The picture above was from outside the only bike shop on our route today (the guitar reference in the window was because it was a bike and guitar store). It made us laugh.  I hope Tim feels better tomorrow, but I am a little suspicious of calling in sick on an absolutely perfect day with… Continue reading Heceta Beach to Winchester Bay, OR