Geez that’s a trio of issues!! Hope your suspension post and new saddle help ease some of it

Those redwood groves are my absolute favorite place on this planet. So beautiful. Thanks for the great pictures.

If you're going to run away from home, you should always bring along good reading material. So not all of your decisions then were unwise.

One of our favourite rides on or off the bikes. When we rode down the coast we went down the Avenue of the Giants. Very nearly rode off the road a good few times from staring up, up, up while trying to keep pedalling.

The sign forgot to mention that cougars often pounce from above, so heads up!!!

No my issues are with chafing and buttock and hip pain.

Thanks, Marilyn. We’re looking forward to Tucson of course, but we were really lucky to have seen as much sun as we did in Portland this month.

Yup. The Western variety.

Loved your pictures today, Scott! Safe travels and I'll be looking forward to reading your journal of your trip back to AZ. We just returned home to Denver last night where we'll be over the holidays. Plan to head south again ourselves in mid-January!

A meadowlark?

Oh, but I did - Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Not bad, and the best of the thin list of options available. Also available we’re Coors, Coors Light, and Bud.

No tripod. I carried a gorilla for awhile but it wasn’t worth the bother or set-up time for me.

You didn't say what you had to drink with the fish... any IPA in that place?

I'm mentioned in dispatches!: Do you have a tripod?

It's not shorts weather.

But waaaah! I want to join the paaaarrrrrrty!

Have fun, y’all and I’m looking forward to the vicarious pleasures.

Good to know thanks Rachael! It's really difficult getting the right saddle. I've gone through many. I often wonder with the amount of mileage you do whether you get any pain!
Do you get coccyx pain? It's something I've been dealing with.