Wednesday 25th August 2004
 Neskowin
Creek to Pacific City - 10 miles. Well we finally reached where we'd intended
to reach yesterday. The rain has continued. I'm about to be timed out at
thepublic library in Pacific City. I've been looking at my favourite medium
range weather site and I've noticed
that they believe a high pressure area will establish itself just off the
Oregon coast. Well, I sincerely and profoundly hope they are right. We've
still got a few hundred miles to do before returning to England! Enjoying
reading a book for a significant amount of time - not something we've done
for the past two months. Lydia Adamson's Cat mysteries are lightweight flim
flam, but very amusing. I've also got Roughing It by Mark Twain, recommended
by Mark Stewart of Mark and Wanda, to enlighten me on what it was like to
be part of all those gold rushes, etc, that we've seen evidence of as we've
crossed the western USA. We've also discovered that there is a brewery nearby
- Pelican Brewery - and we plan to do some quality control.
We're still planning how we get from Astoria to Seattle - suggestions
welcome, we think we'll be doing the coast probably. ...Later - well the
Pelican Brewery is very good as far as the beer goes - we sampled the
various beers and decided it was a close run thing with the Rogues Brewery
back in Newport, but that the Rogues Brewery did actually brew the best
beers. The Pelican Brewery is fairly new (1998 seems to be the official
start of it) and so it may have some catching up to do. Eating there was
pleasant, not cheap, and curious in that the music is superbly dull, being
Beach Boys and the like, all too much the familiar US of postcards and
fake gift shoppes. The waitresses are pleasant but perhaps a little more
curious about how to divide up the tips than to promote real ales - ours
frankly admitted her ignorance of real ale. Well, I suppose you just can't
get the staff... Comments to bradfordbikes@yahoo.com
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