Today we started at our daughter Hannah’s house in Naselle, Washington, and road 60 miles to Paradise Cove RV Resort in Rockaway, Oregon. We crossed the 4.2-mile Astoria bridge that had no shoulder and lots of traffic, and we went through a tunnel, which had no shoulder, it was dark and very noisy!!! and incredibly spooky!! We also went up three very steep, monster hills, super monster hills, each one with about 600 feet of elevation gain, and did I say that it was super steep!! Monster hills!! The scenery was awesome, amazing, incredible, and super!! I did pass two other bicycle riders on the second of the very steep hills, one was walking pushing his bike and the other one was grinding it up the hill. As I passed them I said, “Steep, huh!? and their response was “Super steep!!” Made my day to pass them 🙂

Cliff had a flat today, first flat of the trip. While he was fixing the flat he noticed that the flat tire was almost totally worn out and he saw a sign for a bike shop two blocks away so they went there and they put on two new tires for him. The sprocket for my high gear is worn out and the chain keeps skipping which is very aggravating when you are pushing hard and it keeps jumping a tooth. I called a bike shop tonight and found one that has what I need so I will drive the motorhome tomorrow and go to the bike shop right after they open at 10:00 am and get my bicycle fixed.

I had some really good news this morning. I carry a little portable scale with me so that I can weigh myself on the trip to see if I am losing any weight. I weighed the day before we started and I weighed 231 lbs and this morning I weighed 226 lbs. Five pounds in five days!!! Wow!! I have to try and keep that pace going. We stopped at Mo’s in Seaside as we rode through and I had three pieces of halibut and a big bowl of Clam chowder.