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Day 13: Fortuna, CA to McMinnville, OR The day started out great by continuing our ride up Route 101. We rode by giant redwood trees and visited Paul Bunyan and Babe at the Trees of Mystery. At various times, we came upon sections of construction where only one direction of traffic could travel. In all of these cases, we'd slowly ride to the front. This made our ride much more pleasant as we could focus on riding, not passing. We'd chat up the various construction workers to find out what they were working on. As we approached Oregon, one construction worker in CA told us that Oregon had four seasons: rain, rain, rain, and construction. Boy, was she ever right. In addition to RVs, overturned boat trailers, it took us ~3 hours to go 108 miles (Brookings, OR to Coos Bay, OR). Once we hit stopped traffic outside of Reedsport and hit solid rain, we bailed off 101 and took Route 38 through Drain to I-5. In fact, we discovered that I-5 has more curves in it than 101 does. We finally arrived in McMinnville close to 9pm. For a small town in the middle of nowhere, hotel rates were rather high. Mary thinks it's because of all the wineries in the area. Still, with many empty rooms, none of the hotels would lower their rates past the AAA discount. So we borrowed their luggage cart, hauled our gear to the third floor, and kept it all night. For $115/night, they can fetch their own cart. |
View Larger Map  Scratches and Spork visit Paul Bunyan and Babe Onto 2009 STN National Meet Day 13... |
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