We slept pretty well last night for our first night camping. Although the wind howled all night, the tent held its ground. The sun rose shortly after 4 a.m., but all in all we awoke well rested after two short riding days. My dog bite wound looked OK this morning, and Yuri sent me off with some supplies of bandages and antiseptic.
When we started riding, the wind was blowing an easy 20 kts, out of the west as usual, and we were grateful for the tailwind. We rode about 50 fairly flat and uneventful (but fast) miles on the Washington side before crossing the river to Umatilla OR. We needed to cross back to Oregon because the Columbia turns north here and we are heading east, Our motel was two or three miles west of where we crossed, so it was a short hard pull into the wind to end to an otherwise easy 57 mile day. Once again, we finished early in the day, but we stopped because it is 50 miles or so to the next place with lodging.
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