where's the princess?

here i am! writing to you from the lobby computer at super 8! yes, that's right, a digit hotel. sigh. but this is a really nice digit hotel with a hot tub in our room, does that count? of course it does!!

let me try to get back to where i left off, but first a couple of random thoughts that i missed over the last couple of days.

a picture is worth a thousand words, and me with no camera. on the way out of the track two guys had pulled over in a turnout and were standing with their backs to the road, each had their hands in front of them and were obviously "taking care of business." parked right behind them and waiting for them to finish up was mr. law & order himself. that brought a chuckle in my helmet.

we have just been blessed with the most incredible weather! we hit some coastal mist and the rest was clear sailing.

okay, so back to laytonville, ca. we got up, packed up our bikes and headed out. we continued up pch 1 and cut over on 20 somewhere north. honestly, ye is going to have to buy a new set of tires to get home, i'm sure of that now.

we stopped for a wonderful lunch in pointe reyes, ca. at an organic restaurant. i'm sure it posted that so it could add a couple of dollars to the price of the meal. but that was okay, it was good.

on the road again and heading north toward hilers. we took i-5 from the 20. it was hideously boring, but we can't complain as our twistie mileage has been about 95% of our trip.

we got to jim & carol's, unpacked, decompressed and relaxed for an evening of pizza and margaritas before heading out to the chateau winnebago. what fun! ye and i laughed ourselves silly before drifting off to sleep.

jim & carol have a beautiful house and nice piece of land. i was able to meet their older son, ben, who was quite a pleasant young man. he was a bit amazed at ye's energy level i think. ;-)

this morning, we got up and moving around quite leisurely. jim had graciously taken the day off to show us a few of oregon's roads. nice work, beautiful roads, scenery and wonderful company! am i beginning to sound like i broken record?

i once thought baja had cornered the market on fantastic views, but i've seen them in california and now oregon.

oh, another thing that came to me while riding yesterday. the smells. we were riding through redwood, ca and the smell was incredible. i had to flip my visor up to breathe it all in. it was wonderful.

we are a few short miles from the idaho border. tomorrow is another adventure waiting to be had. i love being on the road!