Light came streaming through the window of my room in Gold Beach so I got up and looked outside. No coyness about the sun today as bright blue sky stretched across the horizon. Today's ride would take me out of Oregon and into California with a planned arrival in Crescent City. Brookings would be the midway stop for lunch. Easily the largest city along the coast since Newport, there wasn't much to recommend it. It does feature Oregon's tallest bridge. Two states down and one big one to go. But before that happened I still had 35 miles of Oregon to traverse and it was all great. Here are a couple shoots of the coast.
Really, these views were very tough to beat. The Oregon coast is wilder than California, with more thickly forested hills, a rougher (and colder)ocean. The air was chilled but incredibly fresh with no major cities within hundreds of miles. This was a great day of bike riding. It ended in Crescent City after 57 miles. Tomorrow is slightly tougher test - 88 miles to Eureka; or if I'm feeling ambitious 106 to Fortuna.
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