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| The First Day!June 6, 1994Dave (left) and Babak (right) roll the back wheels or their bicycles into the pacific ocean on a typical (i.e. rainy) day in Oregon. Needle and Haystack (those two big rocks) can be seen in the background. | ||
A Yurt ??After biking for two days in the rain we were happy to find a Yurt at Cape Look Out State Park. This half-tent half-cabin kept us nice and dry. | 
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Mom's PiesJust past the town of Nimrod (population 3) we found the village cafe which served some of the best pies we've ever had. Everyone who has been to this cafe has left their business card pinned to the ceiling. We wrote our names on a napkin. Can you find ours? | 
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| Is that Peter Pan?Actually it's Dave (holding the banana peel) and Babak after getting to the top of McKenzie Pass. |
A Change Of Scenery | 
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| As soon as we came down the other side of the cascades the landscape changed dramatically. The Oregon Cascades separate the plush Willamette Valley from the very dry Eastern part of Oregon. Dave's bike shown above. |
| The Mega-TentTo give you an idea of how big this tent is, that's a 100 pound dog (named "Moo") you're looking at. We met a couple who wanted to take their dogs (2) with them on a bicycle tour so they had special carts built to tow them along with the rest their stuff. They were towing over 300 pounds each...we met them after they had given up their bikes for a car. |
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Going up and down the three summits of the Blue
Mountains was the only time we hated going
down hill. We had
to keep our hands in front of our
faces to block the hail.
It was so cold that at the bottom of the
descents we could not move our fingers.
Our planned lunch stop was a
town that no longer existed so we
just stood inside a vacant post-office trying
to warm up eating whatever left over food
we had with us. Babak had a little pasta
to eat - I had to eat peanut butter out of a jar.
Later that day we went to the McEwan Country store to recooperate from the Blue Mountains and ate lunch with the 2 Yaks that belonged to the store owners. | 
Yaks! |
| Baker CityOn June 15th, We took our first day off from biking to relax and explore Baker City, Oregon. |
Santa Claus?No - it's Dallas McKennon, he did the animal voices in some of the Disney cartoons. Now he does shows at the Oregon Trail Theater in Baker City. | 
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