goonies bike tour 2006
Tuesday, August 29th, 200624 August 2006
A really welcoming sleep after watching Royal Tenembaums with Azsa and Lorene. Woke up almost with the alarm made twig tea eggs toast with Azsa and Matthew. Packed bag got food. Azsa gave me her ’sky flakes’ brand crackers and little can of iced coffee from Beaverton asian market.
Rolled out around 10 to catch the 10:30 bus, the wave to Tillamook. My something….
fell asleep on the bus product of wake and bake mentality. woke up just before Tillamook town. Got off and went to Wells Fargo and ate grilled cheese at the Pancake Beach house with lots of coffee around 1PM.
Started our bikes down 131 doing the 3 capes senick bike route from the bike trip book from the Albina libray. Did’nt take the book with us.
Dairy farms and shit smell but beautiful.
Rode all the way arount the Tillamook sound to Cape Meares beach. Ocean ocean! So so nice.
Lo set up a picture of us at the log smoked a bone talked about childhood shit. So happy ate a larabar.
Climbed up a steady hill one mile long exactly. So hard.
Tried Puch’s lower gears for the first time. alright. Bag is starting to catch on the wheel. Sagging alot more then I had entended.
After the hill the second mile was fantastic. Down down fast fast. breezy beautiful.
Saw crazy llamas and a dog barked at us for a long long time. Changed into shortpants. So many lucious blackberries to get later. Climbing hills gets easier. Trying hard to figure out the Puch shifting system. Stopped at Cape Meares lighthouse octopus tree for bathroom and playing around.
Bombing fucking huge hills.
15 miles later ~7PM arrive at cape lookout state park. Dinner is gardenburgers w/ cheese avocado and green pepper. Exhausted beat and whipped.
Fire comes easily and mightily. Absolute boycott of tent opt to sleep next to the fire.
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Hard sleep hard ground. Hardcore bikers in the space across the way. lorene got the fire started early ~7 cause she was feet cold.
Amazed to wake up to a blazing fire. Her goal was to burn thru a log 1andahalf ” in diameter. Ate oatmeal with necternes and drank that lil mr. coffee from Tawain. Yoga streaches in striped sleeping pants, mine red white and green; Lo’s yellow and blue. Borrowed chain lube from the dudes across the way.
Went to the forest office to get bus schedual information for the wave up north. The phone ate our money and we just got voicemail.
Started biking back down 131 to Oceanside to catch the bus to catch that beat.
Made it to Netarts around 12 and had to wait for the 2:45 to Tillamook. The first store we stopped at was really lame but it had a glass case full of crabs. It was nice to see and imagine eating all those crabs. The people there had no idea about the bus and they had lame signs about no outside garbage and shit like that.
Got some coffee at the grocery on 131. Lady was real nice.
Walked down to the beach and ate the last of the shroomy chocolate bar from Austin. Beach was amazing.
Took a picture with the Holga of Lorene, the stump, the beach, the sky and the trees. Walked the beach saw lots of glinty black sand. Told about seastacks and lava flows from fissures in Eastern Idaho and other really profound beautiful things.
About 2 hours on that beach- drinking coffee watching the richies take their dogs for a walk and yelling at them if they go near the water looking like a j-crew catalog cover.
Described in detail the possiable origins of black shiny sand from Idaho and Quartz from the Cascades transported via the Columbia River depositing on the beach in Netarts blow yr fucking mind.
Picked and ate some beutiful blackberries up the hill. Then to the bus. First to Tillamook bus came quickly I had just sat down to smoke some bugle brand tobacco. Tillamook wait for the 3:30 to Manzinita with a huge hippie dude and some workers from the Ramada Inn who gave us a free Oregonian. Read about Ted Nugent as the ultimate terrorist-hater, new Rocky movie coming out in December and Artichoke Music on Hawthore becoming a non-profit community music centre.
All are profound to me.
Caught the bus. So many locals talking about the new Safeway in town. There is already a Fred Meyer in Tillamook, Library has a banner proclaiming “Welcome Safeway!”
At the Fred Meyer picked up a teeager on a rasor cellphone complaining nasaly about the bank ect. Bus driver playing 102.sumphin Christina Agulaia, Sarah Mcglocklin ect. suck ass.
Woman behind me talking about the State Fair in Salem.
Matt calls hes going to meet us in Manzinita to take us up to Astoria for catch that beat. Going to meet on Dorcus Ave. Cracking up over Dorcus like a kid on laughing gas.
Pick up Andrew Kaffir in Wheeler who will be saranading us the next day at the festival.
Weird shit/Awesome shit. Blog out.