Day 2 – Moregon (that’s short for more of Oregon)

June 19, 2018
Day 2 – Saint Helens to Welches, OR – 75 miles, 3,060 feet vertical.

The sun was shining as we left our hotel and banged out a fast 22 miles in about an hour, thanks to my 5-cylinder engine of Randy, Rich, Tami and Jay. It was a great paceline to “get ‘er done”, as Tami would say. I can safely say that for probably the only time on this journey, I was the first to sign in at SAG 1 checkpoint (although all five of us arrived together.)

We continued to bang out the miles during the middle section until I got dropped around 55 miles when the gradient tilted up. Unfortunately, I ran over some glass and got two flats at about the 60-mile mark. That’s right, not one, but two. Very deflating!

We finished with a long climb and a magnificent view of Mt. Hood. We capped the day off by relaxing poolside at the Resort on the Mountain. Huge bonus: a nice piano at the bar. So I grabbed John (from Australia), who has been writing a song about our trip, and set it to music. Last piano for the next 3,000 miles!

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The “get ‘er done” paceline with Randy, Rich, Tami and Jay

What canI say!

First to sign in at SAG 1 – and unlikely to happen agai .

Tami is one of our strong cylinders!

I wasn’t going to be in this picture, but Tami insisted that a photo has to have a person in it. Oh, …ok.

Keep the water on your left!

…and keep your head down!

I’m just guessing … that these houses don’t have basements.

The leaders for the day.

Mt. Hood, in all it’s snow-called glories -called glory.

map.  Click on the photos for an annotated slide show on the day’s ride.