Throwback update from Oregon – Pacific Coast Tour (Graham)

Hi all – while the Pacific Coast team is now on to California, internet access has been limited so we’ve just receiving an entertaining note from last week from one of the riders, Graham.

Enjoy!

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Sunday, June 14 – The End of the Cliff Bars

Today we continued along the beautiful Oregon coast, cycling from Port Orford to Brookings.  While we all seem to have adjusted to the hilly, windy roads, we never forego the opportunity to stop at a lookout point and enjoy the view.  While on road-trips, view points tend to become simply delays, all looking the same; merely a chance to stretch and complain about your lack of leg room. When you have to climb an 1100 foot hill to reach those view points, you realize that nature was intended to be enjoyed by living it, instead of just watching it.

More importantly, about 9 days ago we stayed at a substance-abuse recovery home in Elma, Washington, where we were given a large box jammed full of Cliff bars. For those of you who don’t know, Cliff bars are scrumptous energy bars, packed full of protein.  Perhaps ironically, some riders became addicted to Cliff bars. Many of us lived off of them for days at a time.  Today, we ran out of Cliff bars. While some riders may have grown sick of them, or hated them in the first place, this particular rider grew fond of them, and their amazing nourishing powers.  Now I must look to the help and support of the other riders, as I ween myself off of Cliff bars, and back on to all things coated in peanut-butter.

On one final note, simply so the entire second paragraph isn’t edited out by our president, we get fed exceptionally well here, and the Global Agents for Change does not endorse any form of energy bar addiction.

–Graham