Only 80.6 miles yesterday. Actually, I had thought only 70, so I can't complain. Trying to make up for all that lost time yesterday, I've gone 33.8 miles so far today, but just finished breakfast and can't budge. I was afraid this would be a tourist trappy spot - I think its called The Lumberjack Restaurant - with cafeteria style tables no less. When I walked in, the waitress asked me if I wanted coffee, I said tea, she apparently thought I said please, but after she poured my coffee, she left the pot. There's a water pitcher here and a bowl of jelly as opposed to those terrible little plastic packages so many places have. They gave the standard 2 slices of toast, but the bread is twice as thick as normal.

Called Intel today to tell them I didn't want their job only to find they had decided the same thing! However, they are going to try to shuffle up their current people in order to create a hole for a purely technical person. Haven't had a chance to recently as their system has been dead for most of the week, so I have to call them again next week.

Eureka is about 2 hours away and I'll have to spend some time there and try to get cycling shoes and gloves (I forgot my gloves at Stinson beach) and try to get some more Gatorade mix somewhere. I'm getting very tempted to mail back all my cooking gear - not so much because of its weight, but it does take up a lot of space. If I do find some cycling shoes, than I won't have room for my Adidas, so you may be getting a package in the mail soon.

I met a 68 year old guy yesterday who's been doing ~90 miles a day from near Canada heading for San Diego. Not bad.

I remember in Europe driving over all those mountains with the concrete posts imitating guard rails. California goes one better, a lot of stretches along Rt 1 have no guard rails at all and would make for some rather exciting driving. On a bike its a lot of fun, since I can do 40-45 around curves a car would have to do 25, but I don't think I would ever want to drive it. There were rather surprising numbers of cars with trailers and motorhomes along it, including several with drivers not quite aware that they are wider than the average width car; so they made things pretty exciting too.

Should be able to make it to Redwood Natl. Park tonight and decide tomorrow if I really want to pedal up to Crater Lake then. Good chance I won't want to.

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Written 2024 June 5, last updated 2024 June 5.