Day 9: Yachats, OR to North Bend, OR

9/11/2013

Lots of up & down as this 73-mile route skirts the dunes and past Sea Lion Caves before rolling through Florence & Reedsport, past several lakes & over the Umpqua River to North Bend, situated on Coos Bay.

Leaving Yachats

When I was 8, this place was as big as Disneyland

Gotta get me a set of these panniers

Umpqua River Lighthouse

Winchester Bay from the top of Lighthouse Road - can you spot the lighthouse?

Late lunch at The Old Stables in Lakeside, 15 miles from the finish

Lakeside Airport (seriously) and its grass runway on the right side of the photo

McCullough Bridge ahead: "Shuttles provided for your safety". Hmmm, why don't I just take a shuttle from Canada to Mexico?

OK, it was a little hairy, but I survived the bridge & made it to North Bend

Don't forget, North Bend is south of South Bend and neither has anything to do with the other Bend

1 Comment

terry Healy

9/11/2013 01:36:17 am

Jeff – very inspiring. So happy that your legs are cooperating with your determined mind!

Barbara the Honoree just adds to the inspiration!

Point to the wall I need to run through, coach! 

Cheers!

Jeff Fredericks

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Day 9: Yachats, OR to North Bend, OR

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