Jono's Travel Blog

14/09/2010 Day 14 Vancouver to Mexico

Distance Travelled: Sheridan to 2 miles outside Newport 115 km

Money Spent: $1 for a pack of cheeseburger flavoured Doritos (that actually tasted like cheeseburgers), $2 for a corndog and $3.50 for some vegetables and cheese.

Time cycling: 5 hours 15 minutes (now that I have a cyclo-computer I can add this statistic for my journey)

Total Distance Traveled: 870 km

This morning waking up at Stuart Grenfell Park where I made a great breakfast, two packs of 2 minute oats with a tin of canned fruit and the leftovers of blackberries I picked yesterday. I use my portable soldering iron to heat up the fuel for my stove to make the fumes to cook my food but it wasn’t working so well so I ripped the thing apart to fix it and now it works better and hotter than when I first got it.

I’m running low on stove fuel so ill need to buy/get some soon.

The weather was very nice for all the morning until I hit the coast, apparently when Portland and the inland has nice weather the weather along the coast is generally shit, and it was in Lincoln City as it was foggy and cold.

Before hitting the coast I stopped for lunch trying a corndog from a place that sells them as the best in the state, I had never had one before and was curious to what it was, its just a hotdog sausage battered and deep fried, personally I thought it was shit, but filling enough for $2. Luckily as I got the corndog some guy was going to throw out his fries he couldn’t finish but before he threw them in the bin I took it out of his hands… it wouldn’t of stopped me pulling them out of the dingy bin anyway even if he did throw them out.

I finally got to see to the Pacific Ocean from the states…well not much of it as the fog was very heavy and also reached highway 101 which is what ill be taking most of the way down the coast.

I met a Taiwanese guy named Chang on the route and chatted to him for a little while, he had cycled from Alaska and was making his way to Mexico too, I would have liked to cycle with him for a while but he cycles very slowly.

There was a nice little bicycle route that I took me along the coast, it was hilly but away from all the traffic also the views were great. This route took me to Cape Foulweather (appropriately named for today) and Otter Rock where there were no otters at all. Cape Foulweather was situated 500 feet high on the edge of a cliff, it really was quite cool.

I cycled on to just past Newport crossing a very eerie bridge as the fog obstructed any view past 20 meters where I went to a hiker/biker RV camping ground in a state park, its suppose to be $4 or cheaper but its now $6, I was debating whether to stay there or just on the side of the highway to save that little bit of money, although I needed a shower. There was a queue of RVs waiting to register at the single registration booth when I arrived and as one RV was entering the grounds I snuck in behind it and entered the park without paying, hehe.

I met a bunch of others that were cycling the coast too including a Canadian couple (Jason and Julie) then spent the evening chatting to them and a bunch of others.

Made it to the coast where the weather turned to shit

Today I joined the Highway that ill be spending most of my journey on

General Ridgway isnt too happy about the weather, he's pissed!

Some viewpoint along the coast

Chang, the Taiwanese guy cycling from Alaska.

Im hitting up the Oregon bike route.

Cape Foulweather located 500 feet from sea-level on the edge of a cliff HDR

Looking South from Cape Foulweather

Looking North form Cape Foulweather HDR

I found this memorial to the Vietnam war and thought it was a good idea to photoshop (rough) the bike i used to cycle the length of Vietnam next to the bike Im cycling the west coast of the USA.