When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world.
Crater Lake, OR –> Portland, OR (270 miles)
My ride from Crater Lake to Portland wasn’t too eventful or enjoyable. It started off with a slight scare that I may run out of gas. There’s a gas station at Crater Lake, but the processing system was down and they were taking cash only. I went to three different ATMs before I finally found one that would dispense money.
Those who loved you and were helped by you, will remember you. So Carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
Fort Bragg, CA –> Crater Lake, OR (396 Miles)
The night before, Todd and Linda told me I needed to check out Glass Beach. It was originally a dump for Fort Bragg where broken glass from bottles had been turned into sea glass after years of erosion.
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out.
San Francisco, CA –> Fort Bragg, CA (184 Miles) <– Click for map
After a few weeks I finally have my bike back and it’s time to head out on my solo road trip. This is the part of my trip that I’m most excited for because I think this is when I’ll grow and learn the most about myself. I have hours to talk to myself in my helmet while I bask in the glory of the U.S. landscape.
After traveling throughout Asia and Europe the past few months I decided to share some tips on how I was able to do it on a budget and avoid inconveniences like buying separate sim cards each place I went.
Like Paris, it rained hard on our first night so we didn’t do much exploring. Luckily, as we traveled further North the days got longer. By the time we got to Amsterdam the sun set at 10pm so we’d have a lot of time to explore.
We started off our first morning by grabbing pastries at a boulangerie around the corner from our Airbnb. Like the restaurant from the previous night, nothing was in english and the lady behind the counter only spoke french. Despite this, we were able to order by pointing and using hand gestures. I don’t know why, but the lady kept speaking to us in french even though we said we only spoke english.
After our day long excursion from Venice to Zurich we met up with one of my old co-worker, Vishnu, who recently moved there to work for the Google Calendar team. Another co-worker, Pratheek, was visiting as well so we all headed up to the Uteilberg tower to get a night view of the city.
For one of our days in Europe we decided to train all day from Venice to Zurich. That may not sound like a lot of fun, but we took the scenic Bernina Express through the Swiss Alps. We started early and trained from Venice to Milan and transferred to a train headed for Tirano.
Our second destination was Venice. We were only going to be there for one night so we took the early train from Rome. We got in around noon, but weren’t able to check into our airbnb until 1:30pm.
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