Lincoln City, OR

September 21, 2007 by bobcatou

Tonight I am camping in Lincoln City, OR off the Pacific Coast Highway.

I stayed here last year as some might remember but the weather was quite nasty then. Since blue skys were predicted, I decided to take a gander at the town again. The place is quite pretty.

MT. St. Helens was somewhat of a bust this morning. The road up to Windy Peak, where you can see the volcano was closed. Well that is what some of the locals and geologists at the campground told me. They did say that I could probably sneak around the gate with no problem but I didn’t think that would be wish.

Instead I just took a short ride around the area. The excursion was still worth the views I got.

I haven’t decided whether I am going to stay here an additional day and ride around or not. I’m getting tired of setting up and tearing down my tent each day. I might just leave it and shoot off some direction for the day then come back tomorrow night. The leading thought is up Rt-101 north along the coast.

More to come…

Heading south to Mt. St. Helens

September 20, 2007 by bobcatou

I stopped back through to my brother’s and his wife’s place in Port Townsend. I have been have a minor problem with a fork seal on my bike. Small leak but enough to have to deal with.

Not as bad as it looks…just alot of small parts in the fork.

This short visit wasn’t too bad. My brother had out of town company and we ate well. Several crabs and halibut sacraficed themselves for us this night.

The aftermath!!!

In Canada I made it as far as Whistler, B

The town is ritzy but wasn’t as nice as I had heard. Might be different when there is snow.

I just finished looking at some job boards and sent a couple resumes out. I’m heading to Mt. St. Helens tonight to camp then going south from there. I wanted to go to Yellowstone Natl. Park in Wyoming but the nights are already in the 20’s so I think I will see if that changes before I head east.

More later…Hope for no eruptions.

Rabbits and Road Construction

September 17, 2007 by bobcatou

I’m happy to say that the weather is much nicer in Squamish this morning than yesterday.

I had a very good night sleep with the help of my motorcycle ear plugs. I had very nice private site next the a lake but there was road construction going on all night, so that made it a little noisy. Not bad with earplugs though.

View from close to my tent, taken yesterday.

This morning I had some company. Obviously he was a BMW admirer.

He and his little buddy hung out with me for about 10 minutes then took off.

I have seen several rabbits so far on this trip. I’m told that there aren’t many predators around so their population has been booming.

Well, I got to go. I’m at the Adventure Center in Squamish again this morning. I have to figure out which direction to head. Will it be north or south?