Day 16 - Jennifer

We arrived in Newport, OR a couple of hours ago after a wet ride down from Portland. We are staying right on the beach and have a beautiful view of the ocean from our hotel room.

Tina was anxious to go swimming as soon as we arrived so I went down to the beach with her and froze to death while she played in the water. I'm not sure how come she didn't turn into an icicle. I'm now thawing out in front of the fire while Marco does the second beach shift.

Icicle Tina at the beach....brrrr!

I think we are going to take in some sights around town tomorrow, weather permitting. I've got my eye on the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum. Not sure how much enthusiasm there is around that specific activity - I might be going by myself ;o)

I looked at the odometer right before we stopped today, and we have come about 2100 miles. About half way in terms of miles and time. Anderson Island was as far north and west as we planned to go, but was not quite the halfway point. This also means only one more time to do laundry before we get home. Yeah!

Packing for the trip was a bit of a challenge. Four people, variable weather, and not much room on the bikes. We can go about a week before we run out of clean clothes and either have to wash stuff or only stand down wind of people.

We've got pretty good system down. Marco found inserts that go inside of the saddle bags. The inserts are easy to take out and bring into the hotel room. Kind of like small, soft sided suitcaess. We packed everything sorted by person and clothes type in ziploc bags that go into either the bags on the back or the saddle bag inerts. Makes it really easy to find whatever you're looking for.

One other thing on the stuff that we brought...electronics. An entire bag full of chargers for 2 computers, 2 iPads, 2 iPods, 2 cell phones, 2 cameras, 2 MP3 players,  1 Verizon 5-spot internet access WI-FI Port and a partridge and a pear tree!