Today’s 88 mile ride took us from Neskowin, Oregon through Oretown, Pacific City, Sandlake, Netarts, Tillamook, Bay City, Garibaldi, Rockaway Beach, Manhattan Beach, Wheeler, Nehalem, Manzanita, Arch Cape, Cannon Beach, and on into Seaside, Oregon where we’re spending the night. The ride started out at about 6:00 in a heavy mist from the coastal fog. As we rode north on Hwy 101 we got a little damp and had to continually be wiping the moisture from our glasses so we could see. “The sun will be out soon,” we kept telling ourselves. It never happened all day. The bright side to that is that we didn’t get over heated and really wasn’t bad riding weather. When we we arrived in Tillamook we decided to stop by the Tillamook cheese and ice cream factory. We were wet and a little chilled and yes, we had ice cream … and tasted cheese. I was shivering by the time we left and the next hill couldn’t come soon enough. I definitely needed to warm up. From there we pushed on to Cannon Beach and had lunch before finishing up in Seaside. Most of the day’s ride was on Hwy 101 and I really didn’t care for it, just far too much traffic to be really enjoyable. We put in extra miles the few days so our final day could be relaxing. We finish tomorrow and have just over twenty miles to go. It should be a cruise to the finish.















