Summer 1997 - Yukon to California
Journals - 6 August 1997
Day 27
6 August 1997 (sunny; mileage 75.9 ; Beverly Beach State Park) -- Chris
fixed a gourmet breakfast of fried potatoes with cheese and sour cream. We
left our lovely, little alcove campsite and hit the trail. We stopped at a
Fred Meyer and stocked up on some food. This was the first time they gave
me a hard time about using Chris' credit card, but she let me do it in the
end. The riding was pretty good except that we had a crummy shoulder for a
while on an inland stretch. We stopped for lunch at the Neskowin State
Park beach area. We put the tarp over the bikes (unloaded to keep the
kickstands working) and got underneath for shade. It was very fine! There
was a guy painting on an easel and some people playing with skimboards. We
had our lunch than a nice nap. We were hoping the wind would pick up and be
a nice gusty tail wind, but it was pretty still there. It seems hard to
predict what the wind will do, but it's been mostly kind to us. We had a
couple of big hills that I'm amazed to say didn't bother me. Actually, I
was very hot going up the first one and felt like I wanted to puke for a
while, but then a wind kicked up and helped cool me off, and I made sure to
go slow and no problem! We saw some seals lounging on the rocks. That was
really neat. I've never seen that before in a non-zoo setting. Apparently,
there were some whales spotted in the area also, but we did not see them.
We got to this "FULL -- No Vacancy" campground and got right in because of
the hiker-biker program. It's a nice little area and John is our only other
person. He's riding the coast. He tours for a week every summer. He had
some leftover food he gave us -- it was very good and then we fixed pasta
and garlic sauce and THAT was awesome, too. I was very hungry and it all
tasted very good! We went and had our non-pay showers. They were quite nice
and now we are outside enjoying the breeze and coolness and admiring the
stars. Chris thinks he see the Milky Way even.
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