What a nice surprise- we expected rain all day, but it held off! We rode through the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Not much to say about the day really-just a lot of being amazed as the clouds would come by, but not actually rain at all...
One thing that has been really cool to watch are the flowers. A combination of it getting closer to summer and riding south makes it seem like an accelerated spring. Where a few days ago the side of the road was mostly brown sticks, with a lot of thick green trees and more green moss. The the green sticks started sprouting little green leaves, and now they are covered in leaves and starting to sprout flowers. I think they are rhododendrons? . Whole hills sides are now covered in little yellow flowers..
We stayed at a KOA campsite that had hiker/biker camping- but since they had so few tent campers they let us stay at a regular site with water/power for the same price. We stuck out like sore thumbs there. Since its near the dunes and its spring break, EVERYONE there had an ATV. It seemed to be the only reason to be out at that campsite- to stay in your massive RV with cable at night, and ride on your ATV during the day. There were kids on mini ATVs even...but it was great to have a warm fire and have everything throughly dry out before bed time. Can't complain about that!
one of the many waterfalls
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