I hit 900 miles by lunch today, that’s a cool number. A thousand will be cooler.
I’m stopped for lunch in a Chinese place in Garberville, and will need to stock up on some groceries for the next stretch.
Yesterday I saw some baby cows. They were pretty cute.
The next picture isn’t too noteworthy, but I had to take it. I was climbing the gradual hill out of Ferndale when I got to a section that was suddenly far too steep, and I had to walk up for a few hundred feet. Anyway, this was the view:
Soon after that I made it to Rio Dell, and a serious serious blackberry patch!
A plant I don’t know was also there, and I thought it was kind of pretty:
Continuing south through Scotia, I saw the most enormous lumber processing facility. Mind boggling, really.
That’s a lot of dead trees!!
Not long after Scotia I made it to the famous Avenue of the Giants. If you have a chance, this is a cool place to see a lot of enormous old trees. Paradoxically, it was both a great and a terrible place to take pictures. It’s an explosion of light, and color, and texture, and lines, patterns- all kinds of things that can make amazing pictures, but it’s really darned hard to really give an appreciation of the scale of some of these trees. I tried with the Nikon, so you’ll see in the Flickr gallery. This is what it often looked like cycling through the place:
And this is the kind of cool stuff to either side:
Here’s a bridge over the Eel river:
I think that’s for trains, I didn’t go over it. Here’s the Eel river:
Before I left Eureka I went to the natural foods store, and one thing I picked up was a bag of energy bar nugget things from a bulk bin. They claimed two grams of protein per chunk, and decent nutrition per pound and per dollar. Also, vegan.
Surprisingly edible.
In closing, I will leave you with some vines on a trunk. I’m trying to make it to Standish Hickey tonight.
The mystery plant is called teasel, and it grows all over the place here, and can be invasive. Those calves were brown swiss, which I think are the prettiest breed. Our neighbor in Wisconsin has brown swiss.
Man, those are some awesome berry patches you are going by. Nice roadside snacking.