EAGLE LAKE,CA - Got a nice early start today, actually beat the sun out of bed. Something about sleeping uncomfortable that just makes it easier to get up in the morning.
The legs are holding up well I'm to take it pretty easy the next couple of days, shoot for 40 milers then let the mileage come up gradually from there.
I'd been trying to make up my mind about where I wanted to go for a few days. Once I got to Susanville I had to make a choice. If I was headed to East Oregon, Washington or Idaho I'd need to stay on US 395. If I was headed for West Oregon I'd be headed north on CA 139 toward Klamath Falls. I'd been meaning to check the map while I was eating lunch. After sleeping through a couple of the hotter hours of the day I finally got around to looking for the map. It was gone. I looked around for it a bit, with no luck, then decided to go over to the park and think through my options.
There were a ton of kids at the park and they all thought the BikeE was a "tight bike". I spent 15 minutes answering questions. I mentioned loosing my map and one kid said there was a AAA in town and gave me directions. I rode down to the strip mall he'd described and asked some lady if she knew where it was. She told me it was back where I'd just come from then she told how to get there. Now she either gave me really bad directions or she had no idea what she was talking about. In either case she had no business giving me directions. I wish I'd just listened to the kid, at least I found his landmarks.
At that point I decided (rather than paying for a map) to just head north on 139. That's the way we went last summer so I know where I'm going and where the services are. It was a big pull out of town but I wasn't in any kind of a hurry. I'd made my mileage goal that morning just by getting to Susanville. I plugged along over the pass and down into this beautiful grassy valley. I was ready to call it a day at this point but there wasn't really any place to camp, it was all marshy (read: mosquitos). So on I went over the next pass and down to Eagle Lake. The plus of picking up those extra miles is that I'm in position to be eating lunch in Adin tomorrow.
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