Last night I was having a really tough time deciding how to plot the next couple days, mostly due to rain in the forecast again. When I finally let Rett know the trouble I was having, she worked through it with me, came up with a couple good ideas, and mostly convinced me not to… Read more…

We’re still getting used to our new house, all 31 square feet of it. Rett had a period where she’d been waking up at 2:30am every night and not getting to sleep again for a while. Last night, after being concerned about some noises she thought were critters, she dropped off fairly early, but it… Read more…

Getting out of Lincoln City wasn’t super-fun, with the driver that crashed into Scott still on our minds. The insane level of condensation that soaked our tent overnight both inside and out was a pain too. But once packed up and out of town, we had another beautiful day of sun and sea. It’s October,… Read more…

The biggest climb of the trip so far woke us, 800 ft. with sections at 9% grade. It was a beast, but easier first thing in the day than last thing. There is a hiking trail that extends west into the ocean atop the pointed finger of Cape Lookout (which we had just climbed to… Read more…

The forecast actually showed a lot more rain on this travel day than it did on our motel day, but the real advantage was not having to pack up camp in the morning rain; instead we could just head out into it with everything (including ourselves) already under waterproof layers. And that waterproofness was harshly… Read more…

One more strategic stay-in-place night for the weather to clear. At one point, Rett voiced what I’d been feeling, which is that it felt bad to just be hanging out in our motel room watching HGTV (or blogging) when there was the edge of the globe’s largest ocean continually arriving right outside our door. But… Read more…