"We Made It But We're Dead!"-Marta
Oregon to San Francisco Day One
Today the Houghton Family plus Jerry Disney crew woke up at 5am in tents at the Eureka KOA and got in babe quickly to head up to the Oregon Border. The whole waking up/driving to the border thing took a bit longer than planned so we got there late.
Today was the longest day by miles and one of the tougher ones on climb-101 miles and 4500 feet of climb. (Each day is broken into segments with checkpoints were we meet up with Babe "The Sag Wagon" and can swap out and take a ride in the car if they want). Levi, Luke, and Jerry completed all the segments. From a self-reporting survey, Dad did about 70 miles, Marta did 65, Tess did 60, Mom did 51.45, and Eliza did 40. Tess impressed everyone by completing over 4 times as many miles as she's done in any day before. Eliza's accomplishment was that it was her first time ever riding a road bike. Marta's greatest success was defeating the biggest hill of the day between Crescent City and Klamath. Levi is very happy to have completed his first century ride as am I. The two of us got back to camp at about the same time. Levi was first into the campground and I was the first to our campsite.
After everyone got back to camp, we did some tidying and all took much needed showers. It felt so good. Then we headed out you eat at an old fashioned Lumberjack all-you-can-eat place called the Samoa cookhouse in Samoa, near Eureka. We ate A Lot of classic lumberjack food and it was quite the experience. As we got in the car afterward, we all proceeded to name all of the parts off our bodies that hurt. Needless to say, there were quite a few.
Here are some pictures from throughout the day. They're in reverse order. We came across Paul Bunion and his Ox, Babe in gargantuan form. Babe the big blue ox is the namesake for our trusty blue fifteen passenger van.
The big redwoods and the coastline were beautiful. We are so blessed to be able to go on this trip.
Today the Houghton Family plus Jerry Disney crew woke up at 5am in tents at the Eureka KOA and got in babe quickly to head up to the Oregon Border. The whole waking up/driving to the border thing took a bit longer than planned so we got there late.
Today was the longest day by miles and one of the tougher ones on climb-101 miles and 4500 feet of climb. (Each day is broken into segments with checkpoints were we meet up with Babe "The Sag Wagon" and can swap out and take a ride in the car if they want). Levi, Luke, and Jerry completed all the segments. From a self-reporting survey, Dad did about 70 miles, Marta did 65, Tess did 60, Mom did 51.45, and Eliza did 40. Tess impressed everyone by completing over 4 times as many miles as she's done in any day before. Eliza's accomplishment was that it was her first time ever riding a road bike. Marta's greatest success was defeating the biggest hill of the day between Crescent City and Klamath. Levi is very happy to have completed his first century ride as am I. The two of us got back to camp at about the same time. Levi was first into the campground and I was the first to our campsite.
After everyone got back to camp, we did some tidying and all took much needed showers. It felt so good. Then we headed out you eat at an old fashioned Lumberjack all-you-can-eat place called the Samoa cookhouse in Samoa, near Eureka. We ate A Lot of classic lumberjack food and it was quite the experience. As we got in the car afterward, we all proceeded to name all of the parts off our bodies that hurt. Needless to say, there were quite a few.
Here are some pictures from throughout the day. They're in reverse order. We came across Paul Bunion and his Ox, Babe in gargantuan form. Babe the big blue ox is the namesake for our trusty blue fifteen passenger van.
The big redwoods and the coastline were beautiful. We are so blessed to be able to go on this trip.
- Luke
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