Traveling Challenges

This story starts out, "don't worry, everybody's okay."

First, we were leaving Aberdeen over a drawbridge on a raised sidewalk when Karen scraped her trailer on the wall and fell into the road.  When the dust settled, we found the rear axle spindle had stripped out and broke the trailer hitch.

Luckily, we had passed a bike shop in Hoquium.  We were able to get a replacement "Bob Trailer"  spindle and made it work.  Nice guys at the bike shop- really busy...a customer gave me a ride back to where Peter was waiting with the trailers!

So we got going again.

We slogged uphill all afternoon and then I got a call from Peter saying he had a flat tire.

Finally it was getting dark so we pulled away from the road into the grass and set up the tent.  So glad it wasn't raining!  It was a grand adventure.  Peter used our little stove to make delicious cup o  noodles.  We were cozy and nobody could see us.

We were so tired!
It was sunny this morning and we had oatmeal.
Onward to Astoria.