Biking across California② Walking for 3 days from Florence to Lakeside.

Hello! I’m Suekichi.

I’m writing the next episode of the cycling tour in the US.
previous episode: Biking across California① Started Walking south from Florence in Oregon !?

This episode is the story that I walked from Florence to Lakeside. The distance is 55km and it took 3 days.

Day1: 6 hours to get to the Camping ground

I stared walking to next camping ground from Florence in Oregon like this video.

I only had a Google map to know where the camping ground is because there is no Wi-fi. I was very worried if I can make it but I finally arrived there after 6 hours walking.

I set up a single tent and put the stuff like backpacks and sleeping bag as soon as I arrived.

Even though I was super exhausted, I needed to get energy so I stated cooking.

I will never forget the taste of this ramen. After 6 hours walking, food wasn’t just food. It was more like energies.

It was almost sunset when I finished dinner so I went to bed. There was nothing to do without Internet.

Day2: No camping ground!

On the 2nd day, I walked for 8 hours on the this road nothing changed.

When I arrived at Winchester Bay, it was getting dark then I realized there was no camping ground. Moreover, It was sprinkling so I decided to put up a tent near river bench.

However, I couldn’t sleep well because the noise of the town and the coldness. I went to the restaurant nearby at 5 am to warm my body and have breakfast.

Day3: Found a nice shop and met nice people!!

On the 3rd day, I found a nice thrift store at Lakeside.

At the corner of the shop, there were puppies and the staff told me you can have one if you want. I wished I could have…

I bought this T-shirts that the owner’s relative designed. The traveler biking is in the T-shirts. It seemed like a cycle touring was already decided at this time.

As I told the owner I was walking down to south, He gave us a ride to the next camping ground and a short touring in Lakeside.

He made my day! The communicating cheered me up.

Thanks to him, I could chill out at the camping ground.

I hadn’t known I was going to have a hard day at the next day.

To be continued.

Biking across California③ Hitchhiking in the rain and Get a bicycle "Lakeside to North Bend"

I started walking down to south again from Lakeside. It was raining hard then nice people helped me out! I got a bike at North Bend and The cycling tour begun.

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