Yes, you should stop! That is a very good mile per dollar investment. Did they stock recumbents? How is it your bought your recumbent from them specifically?

You can get Crumbl cookies individually boxed. I bought them for the kids on the bus. My aide said I was spoiling them. I told Rick I was buying their love. Or, at least their quietness. Of course, this was in the middle of COVID - masks required. I was still allowed to hand out treats, but only as the kids got off the bus, not to eat on the bus.

I should stop by Corvallis Cyclery to show them my Bacchetta Giro 20 which I bought there in 2007. I have pedaled the bike more than 65,000 miles since then.

I decided to splurge on the Holiday Inn Express in Corvallis. It should be much nicer than Days Inn.
I wasn't there coughing and wondering if/when it might rain, but I'm bummed that you skipped Ritner Creek bridge, then arrived at Corvallis at 12:30.
I hope your cough gets better. Grass pollen will skyrocket when the weather dries out. The southern Willamette Valley is the "grass seed capital of the world".

Crumbl Cookies was recently founded by two students at Utah State University in Logan. Mormons like their sweets.

If it's any consolation, tomorrow should be the last rain of your tour. I hope you can find a mostly dry time window to dash up to the two covered bridges.

I managed to get a second pair of the REI over mitts for Jacinto on sale recently. I wore mine for the first time in real weather on the downhill ride from Aspen to Carbondale. I sure wish I had had them on our Canada ride where I bought the $65. gloves that were worthless!

+1 for Showers Pass. I have had one of the orange jackets for a few years now and it still does a great job keeping the rain out.

Cottage Grove also claims to be the Covered Bridge Capital of the West. Both have 6 nearby covered bridges, so I guess it's a tie.

Thanks! We will work this additional bridge into our route.

Amazing. We made our own circuit of the bridges just three months ago and biked through the Shimanek Bridge then: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/winterlude2021/the-covered-bridge-ride/. We were lucky to get to see it before the project started.

I guess Crawfordsville Covered Bridge is closer to half a mile west of the intersection with Brush Creek/Marcola road. It's only about 10 feet away from the existing OR 228 bridge across the Calapooya river.

I found the "missing" bridge comparing my 26 bridge route to your 25 bridge route. It's on your Sweet Home to Springfield day. Crawfordsville Covered Bridge is only 0.2 miles west of where your route turns left from OR 228 onto Brush Creek road. In that area you also have the option to ride Crawfordsville Drive north of the river instead of OR 228 south of the river.

It was only an additional 0.2 miles each way to go behind the Lower North Falls. From the parking lot to the cave is less than half a mile.

We were drizzled on early in the day and then later in the day-perhaps 20% of our ride time. Not too bad at all.