New post of old photos

Sorry it´s been so long since our last post. Here are some highlights of the end of our long bike trip...


Every State Park in Oregon has yurts that you can stay in for that authentic Mongolian experience.

Entering the home of giants...

Artsy Redwood shot courtesy of Chels.

We finally made it to our final biking destination with our good friends Charlie and Sarah. Not only did we get to cross the Golden Gate bridge by bike but the Blue Angels (American equivalent of the Snow Birds) were flying directly over our heads!!! Does anyone else think that a blue angel is when you light your farts on fire??

TRIUMPHANT!!!!

We´re in Central America!

Hello, blog friends,

We´re in Central America! Costa Rica, to be precise. And no, we did not bike here. We biked to San Francisco, shipped our bikes out, went to Santa Cruz to stay with my friend Brooks, hitch hiked (Mom edit - I mean we took a safe, legal greyhound bus all the way there) to LA, then flew from there to San Jose, Costa Rica.

There were many adventures had, and wonderful people met, and I swear that we´ll elaborate on all of this (and upload a buttload of pictures) very soon! Most importantly, we are safe and alive and successfully faking Spanish everywhere we go.

Love,

Chelsea and Matt

Cannon Beach and a not-so-Disappointing Cape

Cannon Beach is apparently where they filmed parts of "The Goonies" movie.

This is what Matt looks like the morning after biking 60 miles.

Chels catching some waves at Cape Disappointment. This is where Louis and Clark ended their cross American expedition in the mid 1800's. We could tell you more about them but we couldn't afford the entrance fee into the museum made in their honour. Try google.
Delicious camouflage Miller High Life beer...it's cheap, it's big and you can go hunting with it.

The best meal of the trip so far: fresh caught Albacore Tuna...we saw the guy filleting it when we arrived.

Kalaloch to Lake Quinault, WA

Chels is displaying her awesome biking shorts tan. The picture doesn't quite do it justice.


Jess and Devon - our new friends from Bellingham!


Matt found a log to fish from in Quinault Lake. Landed a decent trout that made the guy in the fancy fishing boat next to him pretty angry.

Kalaloch, Washington

This portion of the trip happened a few weeks ago so hopefully I can remember all the details properly...

Kalaloch campground was GORGEOUS! steps away from a huge beach reminiscent of Long Beach in Tofino for those of you who have been up Vancouver Island. This is where we met two incredible souls named Jess and Devon. We ended up biking and camping with them for a few days and shared some great experiences and conversations with both of them...


Matt had some luck fishing and we enjoyed a delicious rainbow trout dinner.


This is apparently one of the largest cedar trees in the world. It seems the US is full of the "World's largest" something or other...

From My Pictures

Oregoners...

We just crossed a 5 mile long bridge with no shoulder over the border and into Astoria, Oregon. It's exciting to be in a largish small town again!

Our internet access has been pretty patchy, and I'm having trouble uploading our pictures to blogger, so this is just a short post to let everyone who's interested know that we are safe (and sound, physically if not mentally).

We're just about to set off in search of a grocery store. Grocery shopping is, generally, my favorite part of any day. Food becomes a bit of an obsession when you are biking 5-6 hours a day!

Lots of love to all, and we'll do our best to upload some more pictures soon.