raindrops are falling on my.....everything

Well, what we thought was supposed to be a 40% chance of showers turned into about 40cm of rain and we're currently storm-bound in Seaside, Oregon.

We woke up to the sound of rain pounding on our tent this morning and after a long breakfast in the laundry room (a very warm place to hang out!), we accepted the inevitable, packed up our soggy stuff and headed off into the downpour.

An interesting fact about the US west coast: when the weather is good, the wind blows from the north. When it's bad, it blows from the south. On a bike, that means that your bad days are REALLY bad because on top of the cold and rain, you're also battling a stiff headwind. In this case, a near impossible one. When a gust would come up, we'd almost grind to a halt and when the wind shifted, we'd be tossed sideways, either into the dirt, or into traffic.

So, when we made it to Seaside, we decided to find a cheap and warm place to wait out the bad weather. To keep ourselves busy? Lots of book reading and movie watching (we've cranked the heat in our room as high as it'll go), lots of fish and chips eating, and maybe even a swim in the ocean tomorrow (in wetsuits and with surfboards, that is)!

~ Christine