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Sunday 22nd August 2004

From Alsea Falls, BLM Campground to South Beach State Park Campground, Newport. A distance of about 66 miles on our own variant on the transAm route. We went to Alsea to have breakfast - about 10 miles up the road. Ate breakfast outside the store - two soaked cyclists eating raisin bran and yoghurt in the rain. Still, it isn't cold at least. Then along the road to the coast at Waldport. Wonderful - the sun came out and Steve dipped his tyres in the Pacific in the sparkling water. And after about 4100 miles we had made it across the USA. We've still got to get to Astoria for the sake of history and the official transAm route, and then to Seattle. But it's nice to have reached the coast. After celebratory ice cream, we went up the coast to Newport - because someone at a bike shop in Eugene said it was their favourite coastal location. Well, we arrived as the sun set in a huddle of cloud over the sea. The sea is, though, remarkably cold, even by British standards. Similar to the coastal temperatures off the north of Scotland I'd guess! The surf isn't particularly good at the moment - blown around and choppy due to an onshore wind. We ate our evening meal in Lee's Wok - a Chinese Restaurant in the splurge of untidy development that extends along the coast road 101. It's got a good vegetarian section on the menu.

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