Illinoistocht

Day 9: Bandon to Brookings. 86.9 miles, 5,553 ft. of climbing (139.9 km, 1,693 m)
Immediately south of Bandon for a few miles, the road runs through vacation homes and hotels perched cliffside overlooking a rocky coastline, but then, like much of the day before, runs a few miles off the coast with a tree-lined Hwy 101 with fog in the distance, so there weren’t great views until south of Port Orford when the road came closer to the coast again and the fog broke up a bit.  As the weather brightened a bit, I was thankful the winds weren’t howling, as evidenced by the fact that there was only a lone kitesurfer at the famous wind sports site of Pistol River.  

This day was marred by having to fix two popped spokes on my rear wheel, but with my attempts at repair, the wheel held true for the rest of the day.  I stayed at the hiker-biker campsite within Harris Beach State Park near Brookings.  The town was only a short mile or so ride south and the giant Fred Meyer grocery store was a welcome site.  The next day I took the bike to Escape Hatch Sports and Cycle and had the wheel properly trued and my poor roadside workmanship corrected.