The Catskill Chronicle

Highway 199 is the main travel corridor between Redwood National Park and Crater Lake National Park.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

On a suggestion to visit Crator Lake in Oregon, I hopped through the redwoods on *Route 199 from northern, CA.

Beautiful ride – was like riding though a Yogi Bear cartoon.

Anyway, as I crested the last mountain, I was hit with a 100+ degree wave of heat! What?!?

It was already too late to try and get back through the Grants Pass (which was 80 miles long). The trip was nearly my range to begin with, and I need to find gas before I could attempt it. But it was getting dark, and I was tired.

Wound up camping at an RV park as close to the border as possible. They were confused why I wanted to camp there, but took my money anyway. Had some drinks in the local bar across the street. 3 beers = $4.75.

I love it in the middle of nowhere!

Drunk, (no dinner), and sleepy, passed out in my tent even though it was only 8 p.m. By 7 a.m. the next morning it was already 90 degrees! Ahh!

I got on my bike and hightailed it back to the coast!

*U.S. Route 199 is a U.S. highway in the U.S. states of California and Oregon. The highway was established in 1926 as a spur of U.S. Route 99, which has since been replaced by Interstate 5. US 199 stretches 80 miles (129 km) from Interstate 5 in Grants Pass, Oregon southwest to U.S. Route 101 near Crescent City, California, and is the northern part of the Redwood Highway. In Oregon, US 199 is officially known as Redwood Highway No. 25. – Wikipedia