Five days in

Today is my first wifi connection since we started. Steamy Hood River, waiting to meet the crew and some friends for dinner.

My earlier post failed to get the captions I printed for each picture. Don't know what went wrong.

It's hot here, and we're expecting temps into the 100's for the next few days. We'll do our best with early starts and short days. Today we truly lucked out with the hospitality of someone we haven't met...a friend of a friend who owed a "big time" favor. Hope someday we can "pay it forward" in a similar fashion. Coming on towards July 4th, it may become harder to find reasonably priced accommodations, and it may become more important to be indoors.

I'm feeling stronger than the 2nd and 3rd days, but those were longer mileage and hard hills. Each day has had some magic and incredible beauty, as well as some "just get through it" mileage. Today we slogged it out on 15 miles of I-84. Actually slogged is the wrong word, I just pedaled like crazy to get back to a sane and quiet road, so really pushed the pedals. Sight seeing another time.

Looks like my opportunities to post are infrequent, but will write when I can.
~ Carol