Bike Trip Part VII

 After meeting Tony and getting SO much help from him Hans and I worked at Cannon Beach Christian Conference Center as volunteers for a day. It is a really cool place and I would absolutely encourage you to call and see if you can volunteer for them if you belief in what that camp is all about. I'm sure it's googlable. Yep it is.  Any ways. I think that was fun. It was also great to get time with my grandparents. From there Hans and I biked to Tillamook where there is a fantastic Cheese Factory!!!! Also they have amazing ice cream. I would visit that town just for the cheese and ice cream. Truly.

Bike Trip Part IV

I hope that I did not forget too much about the bike trip in the time that I have been away... So here is my attempt at continuing in sharing about Hans and my bike trip. The next day when Hans and I woke up and Hans changed one of my bike tires from me. It had gone flat in the night. I don't think I really shared this but the day before when we had all those wrong turns and everything THEN we went through this strange area where it seemed that there was a lot of sharp metal. I got some in my tire and then after Hans and I changed the tire we were SO convinced that everything would be fast and that we would make excellent time that day. Unfortunately where Hans changed the tire we hadn't seen some broken glass. We dropped off some unnecessary items at the post office and sent them to ourselves. From there we headed out and stopped part way into the foggy day so that we could buy some coffee/chai tea at a cute little coffee stand in Centralia. I ended up getting around 2 flat tires that day and it was so nuts because we had already changed it that morning. Because of all the flats we got a ride for about 7 miles from a really cool dad and son. They were on their way to help their father in law and grandfather fix his jeep. They were so nice. It was very helpful for Hans and I to be able to get the extra 7 miles. We just needed that extra boost to help us emotionally get through a day with that many flats.
We finally got to Kelso after meeting a guy who travels about as many miles a day to work and back as Hans and I would do on one of our little adventures. We were in a town when it started to get dark.  Hans wanted so badly to eat pizza so that night we went to a pizza place and both ordered a pizza we in no way finished the pizza but we had a good time and stayed in a little hotel that night. Hans and I hadn't had a shower in our journey yet so we found a cheap hotel room just to be able to get a shower. IT WAS SO WORTH IT. I think I took around three showers in the time that we stayed there. That night I slept so well.

Bike Trip Part III

When we got dropped off it was still day one... this is just day one continued. We were biking along and talking when we noticed this incredible trail! It was nicely paved. Cracks were generally marked. Slopes were gentle up and down. The view was amazing. At the end of the night we were in Tenino WA and found this nice little camp sight. Unfortunately there were no showers so Hans and I went to bed in our tent pretty gross. It was nice to get to rest at last though. We went to bed very happy for a place to sleep and very wishful for a shower. Note: If you do happen to take this trail, learn from my mistake and have your camera out!

The above pictures are at the end of the trail and at out campsite.

Bike Trip Part II

Hans and I woke up nice and early on the morning that we were planning to leave. Unfortunately we had stayed up until like 2am chatting with cousins. Unfortunate because of the time NOT because of the cousins. It was great to see his cousins. One of them actually got engaged recently. I'll have to post on that sometime soon. BACK TO THE SUBJECT THOUGH... Hans and I woke up bright and early and had a super yummi turkey bacon breakfast. Then we rushed down to catch a train that we thought we were running late for. Silly us. In our rush we forgot the back lights to our bikes. We opted not to go back and get them because we thought we were late for a train... Then we got to the station and the train was running late. We sat there for quite some time and took some beginning the adventure pictures... we thoughts we were tired then.

So here are me and my fantastically wonderful husband. Anyways on the train ride down to Tacoma Hans and I met some really neat people. We had planned to spend that time sleeping but obviously that didn't work out. From there getting out of Tacoma was painful! It was SO hot. SO many hills. SO many stop lights. SO MANY BUMPS! Anyways I would night highly recommend going through Tacoma on a bike trip if it is in any way avoidable.
We took so long to get out of Tacoma but once we were finally out I was a pretty happy girl. We biked for what seemed like forever in one direction and then realized that we had hit something on the GPS and had gone about ten miles in the wrong direction. AH! Okay so that might not seem like a lot but try to consider that it takes 20 miles to get going the right direction again. Also we had a HUGE hill that we had to go up because of going the wrong direction. It also meant that we had bike/hiked up one very large unnecessary hill. LAME. I was so exhausted... I kept reminding myself, "You can do all things through Christ who gives you strength." I had so much time for self reflection on this ride. I kept praying and sweating and working my muscles over and over and over again. I almost cried when I realized we'd gone the wrong way. Hans suggested as we went up a steep hill that we try hitch hiking. I don't think either of us thought that anything would come of it but then one really nice looking truck pulled over helped us load our bikes and took us back to where we had gone the wrong direction. WHAT A BLESSING! Praise God! Also, I had really wanted to try hitch hiking someday. I thought it would be a fun thing. Anyways. The guy who picked us up just so happened to be the Senior VP of a store that Hans and I very much like. The guy never went to college he was just a REALLY hard worker. I was so impressed by his story that I heard. He was about to retire but in his life he had worked a farm, named an impressive company, rode bulls, drove race cars, raised some kids that really, really loved him.... I mean that is the kinda thing that you want to be able to say you've done. I so appreciated that man's help. Hans did too. From there we kept riding but I'll have to continue explaining day one in my next post.
There was a lot more going on 

Hello Lovelies

SO I promise I have not forgotten about you or my promise to share more about my bike trip. In the next week or so I will try to give some little snippets about the amazing adventure that I was able to take with my handsome hubby. I will also try to share my fun cookie idea if I get the chance to make it first :) It is a fairly simple idea I just want to make sure it works before I get anyone excited.
Hope you are having a beautiful day!

Leaving on a bike trip... Don't know when I'll be back again.

Hans and I are going to leave on a little bike trip. I am so excited for out adventure. We will be gone a few days and I'll be disconnected from the world so far as internet is concerned. I'm really looking forward to this little adventure and will be blogging it up about the fun once we return! Have a nice weekend lovelies!

Here's where I got the above picture from.