Day 7 - Tillamook to Lincoln City

Wow am I glad I didn't let the previous evenings sunshine fool me into not putting my rain fly on my tent.  It was the wettest it has been the whole trip.  It was a very heavy fog that burned of fairly quick.

Our route was yet again redirected because of a road outage, this time we had to skip the pretty part in lieu of a shortcut, making our day shorter.

The detour was also a bit ominous on the  way up our first climb.  20 or so vultures lurking on dead trees, and a coyote behind them.

Early on though the fog made for some dramatic photos.  Easy to get great pictures when it's beautiful everywhere.

I almost caught a big bird perching on the end of this pic.  Just a little too slow.

We got to get off the 101 highway off and on today making the roads sweeter and much quieter.

Our first climb was like a sauna and quite steep, but it got us up above the fog.

More rolling climbs all day until we hit bigger ones that always seem to have a great ocean view.

The tan lines are coming in nice now that we have a half day or so of sunshine.

We had an hour or so today after getting here where we shot baskets and waited for a service project today.  We all went in the vans to a woman's house who had recently lost her spouse to MS.  We had a very organized to do list.  Mostly yard work, but I took on gutter cleaning, I like to live dangerously and came up with the best way to do it.  It was very satisfying to word hard and make a difference today.  She fed us cold watermelon, ice waters and gave each of us a very nice thank you card.

My Knees feeling much better after my big outdoor yoga/stretch session yesterday.  

Sweet ride, rewarding work, and another great dinner at the church.  Awesome day.