Category: USA

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…

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…

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…

We loved Astoria so much, we just needed to find a way to stay a little longer: morning laundry! And hey, even the laundromat was top-notch and modernized, with a credit-card computer that would let you start your machine directly from the panel. Fancy! Ok, seriously, we knew we wanted to wait a bit longer…

Weather along the Pacific Northwest coast is nearly rain-free for the entire month of August, and mostly clear through September. But October is the month where everything falls off the cliff, with rain being near constant by the end of the month. So we have a strong motivation to get south as quickly as we…