One down, many to go
Well, Day 1 is in the books. Lots more to come... leaving the hotel, starting our journey Any path of a thousand miles begins with a first step. Well, this journey of over 4,000 miles started with our first day on the bikes. We started at the Hampton Inn (thanks Abby) where we dragged in our big bike boxes, ordered pizza, and put these things back together again. Ending up with only a few extra parts, the bikes went together pretty well. Bike boxes were deposited in the hotel dumpster, and we were ready to go. We started out by calling and trying to confirm the status of the road openings of the Nestucca River road going from Portland to the coast. This road avoids route 6, a major route with major amounts of traffic and little road shoulders. After multiple tries, messages left, websites visited, and even some messages returned, we came to the conclusion - we still don't know. Based on this (lack of) information we made the ch...