Rusty Crank Coast to Coast Bicycle Tour across the USA on the ACA TransAM Route

TransAm Day #64 July 30, 2018 Corvallis, OR - Grande Ronde, OR 56 Miles Ride Time 4:30 Hours Tour Total  Miles 4444 details at: https://cyclemeter.com/4b2d99e24f1383f2/Cycle-20180730-1319-40240 Last night I slept in a queen-sized bed with sheets, blankets, and a real pillow in my very own room at Chava’s house. It was a great night’s sleep! This morning Chava made us a fantastic omelette cooked in a Dutch oven, my second Dutch oven meal in three days. She also prepared a fruit salad, and Barbara made a cobbler from berries she had grown in her garden.  Chava and Barbara are both unicyclists and jugglers. Barbara even completed a year of clown college. Chava’s husband Jack is a fellow completist. He's crossing every single lake in Oregon. He’s tackled all the low hanging fruit, and is now doing all the difficult mosquito infested crossings. I wish him well. Chava showed us the boat she was building as well as her nearly completed tea house, where we did yo...

TransAm Day #65 July 31, 2018 Grande Ronde, OR - Cape Lookout, OR 57 Miles Ride Time 4:30 Hours Tour Total  Miles 4506 details at: https://cyclemeter.com/4b2d99e24f1383f2/Cycle-20180731-1058-38700 Last night I slept in my spacious new two-person tent at the RV park in Grande Ronde. We had pulled in late, after my companions failed to win a room at the Spirit Mountain Casino. We set up our camp in the ‘tents only’ area, showered in the men’s room (the lady’s was locked), and threw our clothes in the washer. We didn’t have enough quarters for the dryer.  When I crawled out of my tent this morning, all of the bathroom doors were locked. I didn’t have the code so I went down to the river. Barbara had given us bottles of Cognitol, one of the OM~CHI herb products she sells. We promised we would each take two capsules a day to bring out our true personalities.  When we went to the camp store to buy breakfast cereal, Scott got mad because I asked him in ...