This Trinidad this was a day because the sun was out in California and this town has a cool port with this little light house on the hill over looking the bay. I set on this bench for the longest time just taking in the sun and watching the boats coming in and out of the bay.
Netty picked me up in Eureka and we spent some time the next day checking out the town and we went south to check out the Redwoods.
All of the times that I have been down the Oregon coast on my bike I never when over Cape Meares and to the Light House because everyone has told me that it was I long hard climb but this year I decided to take the right turn after leaving Tillamook. I tell you it wasn't the hardest climb but it was one long climb and to make it bad was it was foggy going up and when you get to the top you have to go down a long hill to the light house and to top it of when I got up there it was so foggy i couldn't see much. But the ride down to Netarts cold but fun I always love the long rides down and when I got there it was sunny.
Cape Lookout State Park has what I think id the best Biker Hiker site on the Oregon Coast and my most faverit stop when i go down the cost. The biker camps are next to the ocean so you can set and watch the ocean and stay next to camp and the camp sits are in the trees.
When I got to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse it was overcast and cool and more fog but the two day ride down here was much of the same. I spent the last night at Beverly Beach and there were about six bikers in this camp and its probable the most I think I have ever stayed with in a biker camp. I stopped in Lincoln City for some chocolate from one of my favorite spots and I didn't stop at Depoe Bay because I was there with my brother the week before.
This is the Heceta Head Light House and I think every time I have been down the beach on my bike I have stoped and taken a pictures at this spot. You go througe a tunnal and up a hill to this road side rest stop. I spent the night at Honeyman state park with I think was the same gruop I was with the last night and that happens somtimes on bike trips if you just ride 50 to 60 miles a day.
I think I have a picture of this boat in Brookings and it has a cool history but because I have a hard time with writing it would take to long.
Netty dropped me off in Longview where I proceeded out to the coast on HWY 30 to Fort Stevens.
The first night I stayed at Fort Stevens state park and it could have been a good night sleep but for some reason the park has chosen to put the trash compactor next to the Biker Hiker camp and I had to lesson to people run it most of the night. But it was good but I did have a wet tent in the morning because of heavy fog at night, which left me with a wet tent at the next camp.
I camped at Nehalem Bay State Park and I had time to dry my tent and I went on a bike trip into Manzanita to check out the town which I had never don before. Its a cool little town I would like to come back some time with the car and spend more time checking it out.
It was foggy and cool most every day of this trip and I found myself drying everything out every day, so it wasn't my best bike trips but I always have a good time some just better then others.
HE WILDERNESS
must confess I did have some concerns for Kari's health but being the trooper that she is she made it.
Dad finally ended up in Leo Carrillo, after riding 77 miles (That included a little side trip). He ended up at his campground to find that the trail to the hiker biker was overgrown. No one was there. It was all overgrown. It was scary, so he decided to go to an RV park that had campsites too. It 
was going to cost him $60, so he rode back to the original campground. The ride back was amazing, because he got to go by Malibu Beach. It was really wild. He loved it. He ended up paying $25 and got a regular camp site.
Today was a 43 mile ride to Tarpinteria State Park. The road was really good and there were no hills. Dad fell in love with Santa Barbara. There is a pier that has a bunch of restaurants and a cool ice-cream shop at he end. There were long beautiful beaches. It was a really cool town. He couldn’t check into his campground until four so he went and did his laundry. He had a hamburger in this really cool little shack right next to his campground. He got a little 
peeved because a fellow piker came and set up his tent right next Dad even though the campground was empty. The man wasn’t very friendly and just sat and drank wine all night long. It was really strange. It wasn’t the best campground, because it was right in the middle of the city and right next to train tracks. There were trains going through all night long. On the upside, he had an apple fritter in the morning from this amazing bakery. It just melted in his mouth.
Boring ride over a really steep hill. That’s how Dad defined today. He was supposed to go to one campground but it didn’t have hiker biker site, so he rode a little further to Refugio State Park. It was $5 and right on the beach. It was cool to sit there and look at the ocean. It was a hill up and then a fun three mile ride down.
