2009 SPAMS Ride - Day 6 - 8/6/2009 Thursday

Folks, on Thursday we left Eureka and backtracked to Fortuna south then east on 36 and then up hwy 3 to 299.
 
Adam, Hwy 36 the first 5 miles going east is boring farmland then some nice redwood groves for 10 miles then a canyon going up with very narrow, windy roads poorly marked and in our case foggy and wet, very slow..... The rest of the road is very nice and in great shape and fast maybe not as techinical as the hwy 1 section we did on wednesday, zowie!! Hwy 3 north is nice and FYI over the week i avoided birds, 4 vultures munching on some road kill (had to honk)and a fox running up a hill but no animal problems on that day except a bird flying across very close to my head!. Had a nice lunch in Hayfork at Irenes Cafe and then made it up to I-5 and past 96.
 
Dave and Radek , we did not take that great road from 2 years ago, we wanted to try the road to the east, nice and no traffic but shorter and not as technical . We got rained on twice that day and quite cool temps. The road however as we got into Oregon hwy 66 east to Klamath Falls was great and really varied , a super road. Big mistake stopping at what looked like a closed restaurant in a small community with lots of Subarus only to have a lady come out and ask us to be quiet because they were inside in a dark room meditating in a circle.... We left quietly...... Klamath Falls had a carnival going on and we had a great rib eye steak next to the hotel and hit the hot tub and bed.

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