Gold Beach to Crescent City (Garmin File) 
The rest day helped. The warmer weather helped. The fact that the climbs came in the first half of the day helped. I arrived at the Ocean View Inn with something left in my legs. That’s a good thing since it’s back to 70+ mile days with 4000+ feet of climbing, tomorrow. More good news is we made it out of the Pacific Northwest with only one half day of rain and the ten day weather forecast between here and Half Moon Bay is sunny with highs in the 60s. That is better than anything I had hoped for. Overall we are doing well. Parkinson’s Disease is not beating anyone down too bad, that I can tell. Age and a lot of time in the saddle is another story. My Garmin tells me I have been on the bike 56.7 hours and have made 29,164 pedal strokes since leaving Seattle 10 days ago. In the group I am aware of sore knees, hips, backs, and necks. A big blister on someone’s toe. One person claims saddle sores – I will take his word on that. Since Norwegians are stoic there are probably a few more aches and pains I am not aware of.
The big news of the day was entering California. With Washington and Oregon out of the way all we have left is California and Arizona, we are 1/2 way there right? Oh, the Elk are massive. The internet tells me that they are Roosevelt Elk the largest species of Elk in North America. California is incredibly diverse!
