The Candian Job - Day Deux

Got my first flat on the second day. I was just leaving McMinnville and I heard a hissing sound coming from the back of my bike. Luckily it happened just feet from a cemetery, so I just pulled my bike up into the grass, under a tree, and went to work. The groundskeeper was mowing the grass and giving me the funniest look.



I stopped at one point and stole a bunch of grapes from a vineyard. It turns out that they were not ripe--very bitter--so I didn't eat many. But I felt like such a badass for stealing produce.

I rode about 72 miles the second day, which was close to my goal. I ended up camping on an old logging road above an official campground. The campground was really pretty. It was on the bottom of this little gully and there was a stream running through the middle of it. I didn't have any cash to pay for a campsite so I just kept walking until I found a road that was overgrown and hiked up it.

My plan for this day was to end up on highway 26 somewhere in between Forest Grove and Astoria but I ended up on a different highway (it was highway 6 or 8 I think). At the end of the day I was unsure about the route I had taken and was considering back tracking some.