ride on

well, here we are a couple of days shy of a month on the bicycle portion of our trip. We have been moving down the oregon coast at a leisurely pace which has been perfect for us. yesterday we crossed the midway line closer to california then washington. We had a great hike up cape perpetua the day before, which was an amazing view of the ocean (let me assure you all), unfortunetly that left us speeding towards a campground 12 miles away as it was about to get dark. We stopped briefly however when a lady informed us that there was "whale activity in the area" And lo and behold we jumped off our bikes and saw whales off the shore blowing and flapping their tales. it was a great sight, and one we hadn't expected. We also unexpectedly saw our friend jay from astoria a couple of days ago(who let us stay on his boat). He had been to a festival in california, and was driving back towards astoria, when he happend to see us riding the other way. we are turning inland after this post to visit gretchen's high school friend terry in roseburg for a couple of days of R&R (and cooking alot of food) should be a good time. oh and matt broke his glasses after visiting the rogue brewery in newport and trying to make their way to the campground through the rain and complete darkness. They went into his pocket o.k., but came out broken in two.