Day 2 - Crescent City, CA to Albany, OR

Pretty slow day today. I think this day is a day of just getting there and learning to slow down mentally. Lots of things were on our checklist yesterday but today is mostly putting miles in.

Got up about 7:00 today and were on the road to breakfast by 8:30. Breakfast was good but a little slow. We didn't get on the road for real until 10:00. Good thing this was not a 400 mile day!

The best part of today's trip was the redwoods just outside of Crescent City. Need to plan a trip back to Jedediah Smith Redwoods. Past the redwoods the road followed the Smith river to Grants Pass. A very easy and pretty road.

Silliest sign: "Congestion". We say a yellow traffic sign with this on it in a town of a few buildings. I guess congestion there means you can see another car while you're driving!

Southern Oregon is very pretty forested hills/mountains. Once we got past that it turns more into valley farmland.

Might have a picture to post for this leg tomorrow of the three of us crossing the border into Oregon. (The camera is not with us here.) We found a bookstore/coffee shop with free internet so they got our business instead of Starbucks across the street.

Major conversations today were all about will Walt sell his GS when he get's back and buy a 2004 or 2006 BMW RT.

Don thinks I should sell my Harley softail and buy a smaller Harley. Maybe a low-rider or one of the new Sportsters. Other speculation on future bikes for me revolve around BMW's possible replacement of the F650GS with a new model.

Don's comments: Need to work in better meals. Don needs 3 complete meals a day. (Walt and I work more on the 2 plus a light something)

Walt's comments: Sore butt!

John's comments: I'm really looking forward to getting to the Canadian border. That's where I think the trip really starts!