{"id":120,"date":"2010-06-18T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-06-18T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T06:27:20","slug":"wandering-around-the-west-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wandering-around-the-west-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Around The West \u2013 Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So when I was writing the post yesterday the plan had been to ride north from Crescent City, California, via US route 101. \u00a0Break off onto US route 199 to head inland, then hook up with Interstate 5, finally ending up in Eugene, Oregon, for the night. \u00a0Well, that didn’t quite happen.<\/p>\n

Awaking, we ate the hotel sponsored breakfast and headed out to our first point of interest in Crescent City: \u00a0the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center. \u00a0There they nurse sick sea mammals back to health and return them to the ocean. \u00a0We arrived there, with no help from the GPS due to the confusing directions it was telling me, around 9:00-ish. \u00a0Unfortunately the gift shop area hadn’t opened up yet, but you could see the sea lions they had in the pens next to the building that they were nursing back to health. \u00a0While we were checking them out, a lady told us that there were more on some rocks down by the beach. \u00a0So after snapping a few pics we went off to the beach — a short walk across the street. \u00a0No sea lions were to be found, but the beach was amazing. \u00a0The beaches I’ve been to here in Oregon don’t have such a shallow slope so low tide only gets you maybe another 20 meters of sand. \u00a0At Crescent City low tide gives you maybe 1-2 kilometers of more sand. \u00a0Pretty cool to a former midwesterner.<\/p>\n

We moved on and departed Crescent City knowing that we had a lot of miles to put on today and tomorrow to get back home by Saturday. \u00a0We rode up US route 199 towards Grants Pass, Oregon. \u00a0Another wonderfully twistie road that is absolutely gorgeous. \u00a0I would ride that road every day if I could. \u00a0We stopped in Grants Pass for lunch and headed on. \u00a0Somewhere on the way to Eugene we started talking about simply going home instead of stopping over in Eugene for the night.<\/p>\n

Our plan for avoiding Njord and his playfulness failed. \u00a0While traveling on I-5 the wind picked up again buffeting us and every other traveler on the road. \u00a0The interstate from Grants Pass up to Eugene reminded me a lot of Interstate 90 when we were driving our belongings out from Illinois as we passed through the mountains. \u00a0Not as grand as when we passed across the Rockies, but still pretty cool.<\/p>\n

By the time we reached Eugene our minds had been made up. \u00a0We stopped for a rest with some Dutch Brothers coffee and hit the road again. \u00a0Powering on through the wind we rode from Eugene to Tigard for our next break at California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. \u00a0Getting back on the road after dinner we finally pulled into the house. \u00a0Home sweet home. \u00a0No freakin’ wind.<\/p>\n

All totaled we were traveling for about 8 hours, covering a distance 340 miles. \u00a0It was a long day on the bike, but it is good to be home again.<\/p>\n

Pictures from day 7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So when I was writing the post yesterday the plan had been to ride north from Crescent City, California, via US route 101. \u00a0Break off onto US route 199 to head inland, then hook up with Interstate 5, finally ending up in Eugene, Oregon, for the night. \u00a0Well, that didn’t quite happen. Awaking, we ate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}