planes,trains, & automobiles - bikes buses and boats

This is a picture of us when we first left vashon island where aimee (matt's sister) lives.

well, it's been a week or so since we've been to a computador (it's been great) we left port angeles and made our way down the west coast of the olympic penninsula. We stopped for a day and made our way up into the hoh rain forest. one of the only rainforests in the u.s. It was beautiful. There was free camping on the road to the rainforest. we stopped and pitched our tent and hitched up to the top (the road only goes to the hoh). It was amazing the way things grow in the forest, and by some amazing luck it was the first sunny day that we had had in a while. So we spent a warm sunny day looking at the moss and large trees, then went on our way. We hung out with a cool guy dave who was camping and making his way back to san fran (by truck) the next day we made it to the coast and slept on the south beach campground. I (matt) took a quick dip in the pacific ocean - the first one of the trip. it was chilly chilly. The next days we kept cruising down the coast and starting meeting more bike tourers on the way. We are now in the town of astoria oregon. yep that's right we made it to a new state. We arrived two days ago, and promptly ran into a nice guy who said "if you guys need a palce to stay you can sleep on my sail boat" then he arranged for us to go sailing the next day out into the mouth of the columbia river where the columbia meets the ocean. astoria is the town that the lewis and clark expedition first saw the ocean from. So needless to say we have had a great time here slept on a sail boat in the marina for a couple of days and did some busking in the streets for extra cash. explored the local breweries and the rest of the town. now we'll be turning to the west and following up the columbia river to portland and hanging out there for a little time to rest up and visit some friends (and hopefully play some tunes).