Summing up my own TransAm in one shot

Day 4 Brunswick to Hancock, MD on the C&O Canal Towpath.
I can actually do this!

Post trip in Eugene OR

I relieved the necessary drudgery of van cleaning with excellent food truck dinner and rose at Da Nang and excellent breakfast at Morning Glory Cafe. I always like Oregon.

Before the final descent to Florence

Knock you off the bike tail winds. Plus a bit too much traffic and a final tunnel to ride through scared that the following traffic won't see the flashing "bikes in tunnel" sign, obey the 30mph limit or think it's fun to blast the horn while inside the Hecata tunnel. My rear flasher fell off after all the corrugated road, but I retrieved it intact.

The end of my TransAm

34 miles of 101 to Florence,OR.

Monday July 26

Dip the front tire in the Pacific to officially end the TransAm. Blustery and mist, just the way it should be.

Day 74

Ocian in view! I know how Wm Clark felt in 1806 when he wrote this.

Day 73 salmonberry cp

The riders are barnsour, so really not paying attention to the scenery.

Onion seed growing outside Springfield

A delicious onion smell in the air. My day to bike to Alsea through the rich willamette valley farms.

Good pasture covered bridge

Salvage

Bringing food back to an area of iron gates leading to piles of ash

A serious burn

Odd to see the lovely river in scorched and blasted burn

Day 72 Blue River on the McKenzie River

A primitive camping night. Followed by a route along the river. I've been here before work cycle Oregon

Now changing to my familiar forest

Such a view

Day 71 Friday July 23 McKenzie Pass

My day to drive through the extraordinary lava flows and then a corkscrew descent to McKenzie Bridge USFS camping

Sisters Creekside county park

The change to a western Oregon Portland vibe is unmistakable

Secret canyon in the sisters forest area

Sisters from the bike seat

Terrebonne for lunch

Be sweet

Terrebonne

Near Smith Rock SP

Day 70 July 22 approaching sisters

Camping in Prineville

Another contradiction. And the weather at night is changing to cooler mornings.

Dry desert changing to Central Oregon volcanic

Day 69 Wednesday July 21

Mitchell to Prineville. I was last here in 2017 for the eclipse.

Day 68 Spoke’in Hostel in Mitchell OR