A hearty Hoquiam hello from... Hoquiam.

Yesterday (Monday): Started out in Forks with the weather never having looked less friendly. I took this picture at Thriftway, where we stopped to buy our food rations for the day.

It might be hard to tell in this picture, but it's totally pouring.

But luckily, the sun came out while we were preparing our lunch underneath a Highway 101 overpass.

So we put some of our stuff out to dry.

Some time later, during a short break from pedaling, I leaned my bike against a road sign to take a short walk up the road with the camera. Here's what I found:















Seriously! These were all within one hundred feet of each other, people! Not that we didn't enjoy the ride. In fact, we all decided that the stretch of Highway between Forks and Kalaloch provided the best ride so far on the trip. Maybe it had something to do with our emotional reunion with the Pacific Ocean.

And I finally worked up the courage to take my hands off the handlebars long enough to snatch these two nuggets.

And best of all, when we arrived at the campground, we actually had sunlight left! Yessssssss.

Today? You don't want to hear too much about today. Let me just say a couple of things:

• it's still raining, a lot
• we're in Hoquiam, which is pretty (suspiciously?) far south from Kalaloch, where we started out
• and, this:
  

(Yep, a bus.)

Bottomline: the weather's terrible, but we're still having an awesome time!