August 24 Crossing America
Ed and Suzy two of the nicest folks you will ever meet.
If you are a touring bicyclist riding down the Oregon coast and need a place to stay in Bandon, Oregon you need to contact Suzy at 206-491-7499. She and Ed will spoil you.
Dale is training on the Blackhawk, think I incorrectly said Apache yesterday, today. Suzy had to work. Ed is busy with renovating his other home. Me, well I’m spending much of my time deleting unwanted SPAM mail from this website. It amazes me all the check email and attacks my website is experiencing. I consider my journal non-controversial and of low priority for the majority of folks using the internet, so why do some folks want to attack it is beyond my compression. Oh well, that’s life.
I’ve been having a lot of back pain the past few days. Two nights ago, for the first time ever, I had back spasms. Every time I think I’ve experienced excruciating pain some new part of my body lets me know otherwise. The back spasms actually brought tears to my eyes, immobilized me causing my upper back to arch backward, while the muscles in my legs pulled up toward the lower back. I woke Dale with my muffled screams of pain, was covering my mouth with a pillow to keep from waking him and the rest of the household up. Dale retrieved some pain and muscle relaxant pills for me and I swallowed them without water, not easy to do. It took another half hour before the pain subsided enough to allow me to go back to sleep. The next morning, Aug. 23rd, I was barely able to get out of bed and walk downstairs. Strange I could barely walk and sit but once I got on my bike and laid over using the aero bars all pain went away and I felt comfortable all day in that position. Once off the bike and riding back to Suzy house the back began aching again which is the primary reason I didn’t go for a swim with her yesterday. I must have my muscles out of balance due to the nearly 3 months of spending most of my time on my bicycles?
In the afternoon I drove down to Port Orford and purchased salmon for tonight’s dinner. The salmon was caught yesterday. After returning from Port Orford Suzy and I went to the co-op to pick up this week’s selection of greens. I grilled the salmon in aluminum foil and it came out moist and tender, almost melting in the mouth and had great taste. Wish I could buy fresh salmon or any seafood in Nevada, MO but that won’t ever happen. Dale made it back in time to have dinner with us, too.
I heard from Larry today, he is laid-off the job completed. He’s driving down with his daughter Kylie to join us for the last three days of my west coast adventure. They won’t arrive until about 1:30 or 2 AM. After talking with Suzy and Dale, I phoned Larry and suggested he wait until tomorrow to drive during the day as it is an 8 hour drive why do it in the dark and tired after work. He compromised and drove to Eugene this night.
Outside of getting my laundry done and the above listed activities, I didn’t manage to make any posts in my journal. This post is actually being written while I’m at home in Missouri as are all of the posts from Aug. 21 forward. Hopefully, I’ll be caught up before heading to Key West for stage 3 of the adventure on Sept. 5th. Thank you for your patience waiting for the latest journal posts.
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