Day 9 - I really feel like I'm being repetitive, so let me take a different angle this time. Today was hard. I didn't sleep well last night. My tent was pitched on a slight grade and I kept slipping down off my sleeping pad, waking up every hour as a result. It was also cold - 35 degrees when we woke up. The park we camped in had no real facilities, just a simple toilet over a hole in the ground, so there was no refreshing shower or shave to be had. I held u...

Day 8 - I wrote a long entry that was lost when my app crashed, and now I really need to get to sleep. I will update this with more detail another time, for now here's the Cliff's notes: - Oregon is beautiful - Redwood trees are big - Temperatures swing 30-40 degrees hotter as you ride inland from the coast - Northern California has a lot of poor white trash that scare me - Mount Lassen after dark is amazing - see the picture of the stars that we took - he...