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Today I had to put out breakfast and lunch supplies for the crowd (as part of being cook for the previous night), then we road 5 miles to a ferry that took us across the Columbia River to Oregon. Sadly no sigh to mark the passage. Beautiful boat trip, though. We talked to a local that lives on one of the islands. He explained how the dredging works, and about the locks up the river that are necessary because of all the dams.

After that we had another 30 relatively hard but fun miles to get into Astoria, where we are staying in the Atomic Hotel: a very basic but clean hotel a mile from the center of Astoria. Nice location, it will be good to be off the bike for a day.

The highlight of this day, besides the ferry ride (love ferries), was the stop at Rogue Brewery. Rogue makes great beer but is mostly unknown in most of the country. I had no idea it was here and just turned at the sign. This took me out on an old wooden pier where they had their "Public House", w/ all their beers on top. Six more folk showed up before we finally left.

Also, Pam started talking to a married couple nearby who were interested in our biking. Turns out they were interested because they had a good friend named Joe who did tours. Turns out Joe is/was an ACA tour leader that led one of the rides Pam has done.

Freakish.

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