Sunday, August 23, 2009

"There's no shower, but there's plenty of River"

More cloudy skies.

Guess what day we tried to go to the library? We wanted to see how bad the climbing would be over the next few days and plan our ride accordingly. We decided to just go ahead and bite the bullet and ride.
We hit the Columbia River in good spirits, which were further buoyed by the site of Oregon across the river.



I gotta wonder if photographing this power plant (potentially nuclear) could get me arrested?

Our campsite was not far removed from ninja camping. It was on the side of the road by the river.
The camp host told us that there were no showers, but plenty of river. I decided to take him up on the offer, but Tim was being a pussy.
The water was actually quite warm, and it was fun to get to swim a bit. In the entire month we biked along the Pacific Ocean, this was the only time we went swimming.
After I went in, Tim decided to follow.

The campfire gods smiled on us that night -we found enough fire wood for an excellent campfire. An odd thing happened that night. As we were getting ready for bed a guy that looked like he fell off a pirate ship and a younger girl came over to set up a few tents. They were talking about people coming over, so we were worried we had decided to camp amongst a beach party, but after setting up, they just left. The next morning we woke up to the sound of redneck voices talking about guns, and whatever dumb ass rednecks talk about. Turns out they were a fishing party. I don't know if those two events were related but it sure was weird.

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