Since our last post we have been cycling through rainy redwood country.
We stayed for two nights with a wonderful womyn named Connie, who we met at a coffee shop in Crescent City. She taught us tons about everything from the dangers of fluoride in the water system to 1960s musical history. And she sent us on our way with tons of nuts and other yummy snacks :) Her umbrella cockatoo `Buster` was a lot of fun too!
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| Steve and Connie dancing |
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| Buster |
On the way out of Crescent City, we stopped at the harbour and witnessed some sea lions hanging out on the wharf. It was our first seal encounter of the trip.
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| Sea lions at Crescent City harbour |
Upon the advice of another cyclist, we took `the scenic route`, along the coastal trail, out of town. The supposedly bike friendly path turned out to be a rocky, wet, steep slope, followed by intermittent paved areas (an old highway from the 1950s). It was beautiful, but certainly not suitable for fully loaded touring bikes! We enjoyed the increasingly huge trees, some of which you could stand inside.
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| Kristi and Garrett on the Coastal Trail (not too good for bikes) |
That`s all for now. Tomorrow we will be biking through the larger redwoods in the National Park, which we are all very excited about :)
The PEDAL Crew
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