No, we didn’t attach jet packs to our bikes!
So, back in 2019 we bought “Cycling the Pacific Coast: The Complete Guide from Canada to Mexico” to inform us what to expect. In the intervening six years, we forgot one of its central lessons:
We were, however, reminded of this dictum the previous day when Alissa found herself needing to be in her lowest gear and pedaling hard while riding downhill and when we encountered another pair of cyclists in Redwood National Park who muttered as we passed them, “they’re going the wrong way.”
Thus, today, we came to our senses and decided to do what we might well should have done to begin The Northern Half and rented a car to drive to Seattle. We made it Roseburg and will arrive in Seattle tomorrow.
