The coast, the coast!

Ta da! We made it to the coast! We’ve been cruising through some beautiful and remote places and really enjoying ourselves.

Here I am making it up over our last big mountain range, the cascades.

We took a day off at an amazing lake that was formed when lava clogged up a spring fed river. It is filled with beautiful clear 43 degree water.

We found and ate a ton of blackberries (and also pie and ice cream).

In Eugene an awesome bicycle enthusiast named Eric confirmed that there was a backroad way to get to the coast. He sent us up into BLM land on logging roads. It was really beautiful and there were no cars! Thanks Eric, we had an awesome time.

There was also an amazing hand carved sign, which was confusing because you may notice that north is actually down on this map.

We finally crossed into California, our last state. As you may know, San Francisco is in California.

We rode through the redwoods, which were amazing. It has actually been pretty tough riding down the coast, there are lots of pretty long and steep climbs, and then you fly right back down to sea level.

We are still wearing the same clothes. Also, it’s cold here, lots of fog!

We made it to our friends house in Arcata where we’re spending 3 nights. I realized it’s the first time we’ve spent more than 2 nights somewhere since we left NYC back in June. It feels luxorious!

Arcata is full of characters. We met this guy at the Trinity river yesterday, I think he believes he’s a one man boy band.

One week more to SF!