Today we passed from the inner sanctum of the promised land (Curry county in Oregon where I had dreamt there would be lots of curry) into California after a couple of hours of relentless climbing. The views were continual, and as we worked our way up the terrain we kept stopping to grab our last looks out along the Oregon coastline.
Brookings led to Harbor where we turned off hwy 101 onto ocean View Drive, stopping for coffee and lunch in Salty Dog Cafe. As per the norm now, everyone was interested in the mad Irishman buying snacks in a bike helmet, and offered many suggestions for our route.
Rejoining 101 briefly we crossed the state line, shortly before turning off the highway again onto Ocean View Drive. For the first time since starting our tour, we felt stagnant heat. Watching the weather this morning we saw f0recasts of 90-95F in the next couple of days and already we could feel the difference.
As the sun beat down on us, we cycled through Smith River, taking a detour on hwy 197. The next city along 101 is Crescent City which has little more to offer than a prison and the families of it's inmates. Appealing as this seemed, we headed for Jedediah Smith State park to take in some redwoods.
The park was the setting for the Return of the Jedi, which Tim has just told me he hasn't seen! I think it is in the scenes with the Ewok village and where they have a chase through woods on some sort of flying machines.... The funniest thing about this is before we knew about the filming, Tim had kept getting tongue tied, calling it Jedi state park! Brilliant - we couldn't stop laughing.
Tim went to the visitor centre to find out how to get back onto hwy 101 and the guy ended up planning an amazing route (we hope) to get us all the way to Healdsburg and copious amounts of wine. I guess we will find out tomorrow how good his route is.
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