Day 5, not a good day.

We were getting a late start, and went out to get the bikes ready for the day, and the Nomad wouldn't start. Dead battery. The previous owner had enough LEDs on the bike to make a "light happy" Goldwinger jealous. I took 5 50 LED strips off the bike before we left. That left only 7 50 LED strips. Yep, I bumped the switch putting the cover on the night before. We borrowed a set of jumper cables, and had to use Purple500 to provide the power. It took about a half an hour to get enough juice into the battery to start the Nomad. As a side note, the 500 was putting out about 12.6 volts at idle, the Nomad put out over 14.2 into the dead battery at idle once it started.

Once we got under way, the ride was nice along US 101 westbound in Washington. The ride along Crescent Lake on 101 was beautiful. We were trying to make up time, so we didn't stop for pictures. Then we left that area, and 101 through the rest of Washington is definitely a road to be avoided. It gets close to the shoreline a couple of times, but you can't see it because it is very overgrown. Yes, we are spoiled living in the Black Hills in South Dakota, which has some of the best and most scenic roads in the country. But still, 101 stinks. I would choose the Columbia River over Washington 101 if you have a choice. You won't miss anything.

That out of the way, we got into Oregon, and 101 is a fantastic road. scenery is great, many stops, but we were tired, and got a motel room 12 miles short of our destination, in the town shown on the beach in this picture. Only downside was, we didn't ask about wireless, and they didn't have it.

Today was only 294 miles, but seemed like a lot more than that. It was a combination of traffic, lack of scenery, and not making water stops along with our gas stops.