Eureka I Found it

If I do not start to hurry up, I will not be home for the first termination dust to hit the Chugach range.

It’s cool enough this morning here in Seaside that Ohms will not need to  be filled up with the high dollar 90 octane and will run just fine with 89.

It’s interesting to buy fuel in Oregon, as most places still employ attendants to pump your fuel. If you are in a car you would not even have to exit your vehicle. On a motor bike most attendants will run your card through the reader on the pump and then hand you the hose so you can fill your own tank.

That’s okay with me, especially if the attendant hands me back my credit card.  Every one of these attendants have been way friendlier than say car  rental garage attendants. It must be because they are outside, well under a canopy, where the garage car rental people are inside the bowels of some airport garage breathing exhaust fumes instead of gasoline fumes.

The lady at the Fred Meyer in Coos Bay stands out as the best gas station person of the trip. She was having a grand time greeting all her regular customers, handing out treats to all the dogs riding in the truck cabs, and gave me a fist bump as I prepared to head south. I hope these people do not come down with strange cancers as a result of being exposed to gasoline fumes all day.

Ohms was making fumes out of the gasoline that I put in her tank as we headed south on 101 out of Coos Bay into the wettest day of the trip. The storm that had been teasing the coast of Oregon for the last several days really landed this morning, with sideways rain and gusty wind that was stronger as the road dipped down to the ocean level.

Rough Seas

Having trained for just this situation by riding Turnagain Arm almost every day, including winter for several years I was prepared for strong winds in corners, and not much is going to sway a big motor bike like Ohms. There were a couple of oily spots that proved exciting, but I just rode through it, waiting for Ohms to turn the dash lights on in the darker tree covered sections of road.

By Gold Beach things were looking like the rain was going to stop, and I was getting hungry, as the hotel toast bar this morning consisted of a couple of boxes of donuts, and I passed on that.

As I pulled into the little cafe in Gold Beach the rain had almost ceased. Actually it never rained the entire time I was in the restaurant but waited for me to get done with breakfast before picking up just as strong as before.

It's Open

Back out on the road it rained steady to California and then all but stopped for the run into Eureka.

At the small town of Orick 101 was closed as a herd of Elk wandered across the highway then back to where they started.

Since the motor company outpost Redwood Harley Davidson in on the north end of town I pulled in to see if I could get a oil change set up for tomorrow. They said they could do it right then, so I signed the paperwork and left to the lounge and to switch up my gear. This shop is very professional. I had stopped here last year when the compensator was failing on my 08 flhtc. They diagnosed the problem and even had all the parts in stock to do the repairs in one day. Doesn’t get much better than that at a motor company outpost.

Time to relax and enjoy some sunshine in Eureka.