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| Comfort Inn, Astoria |
Seven days of riding and they are now in Oregon and to celebrate they have left the tents folded for the night and settled in to the Comfort Inn (well, that and the fact that it rained the night before and they started the day in dense fog so everything was wet and soggy!) Also, as suspected the "Night of Trains" did occur and they now know just how many trains of all shapes and sizes travel along the tracks by the Toutle River RV Resort and it's a lot! So I would agree they deserve a dry, quiet, comfortable night to start the Oregon section of their trip.
However, just so the Toutle River RV Resort isn't solely remembered for the train whistles, they experienced the kindness of strangers who went out of their way help the guys. They had been told that the local pizza store delivered to the park and that factored into their choice of a place to stay. Unfortunately, they don't deliver on Sundays and going back into town would mean another 16km on their bikes. Then the youth working in the convenience store offered to call his girlfriend and ask her to pick up a pizza at another place he knew was open but didn't deliver and said if she wasn't able to he would take his break and pick it up himself. She could and did and the guys thoroughly enjoyed their pizza along with the kindness of a couple of teenagers.
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| Day 7 Route |
After leaving Castle Rock in dense fog they For much of the day they rode along the north side of the Columbia River over very hilly roads that consisted of long up hills and long downhills. The crossed the Columbia River at Cathlamet by bridge and then by ferry and then rode into Astoria along Hwy 30.
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| Bridge at Cathlamet, WA |
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| Ferry across the Columbia |
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| Random cyclist crossing on Ferry |
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