Just before going to sleep last night, I decided to follow up on a caption on Oregon's official highway map that had the following to say about one of the roads on today's route: "Road is closed seasonally. Please check on road conditions." Eric and I logged on to Oregon DOT's website and found that Mackenzie Pass was indeed closed for snow.........over 30 feet of in fact! That's not a typo. THIRTY FEET of snow! In case you're interested in taking a scenic drive out there, you need to wait until mid to late July, and then you only have two months before it's closed again.
Needless to say, the "short" course for this morning turned out to not be so short. Such is life on the bike trip across the country. It was, however, a beautiful route, passing through the classic landscapes of the pacific northwest - gargantuan evergreens, snow capped peaks, roads drying from recent rains, and the smells of old forest.
Tomorrow = the ocean.
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Guys, you're so close! Carson, we totally met a girl at Frances's birthday party who was like, "you work at the Volpe Center? Do you know a guy named Carson?" I told her you were somewhere in Oregon.
Way to go!
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