Day 7 - June 25th, 2011

Drenched in sweat from the moring heat and with no food for breakfast we make a quick sprint to Mazama for some food. Finding the only store in mazama we were surprised to walk into to such a cool little store with a bakery, cafe, and grocery store filled with Portland beer. Lots of tandem cyclists strolled through getting ready for a group tandem ride through the cascade loop starting in a couple of days. Nice to see fellow cyclist out in the boonies. A couple of bagel sandwiches and coffe gave us our enegery to make it to Winthrop, where we are recovering our legs from Washington pass and giving them a strech before the next three passes to come. Winthorp is by far the coolest city we have visited yet. A tourist town keeping its western theme throughout the city, even the bank was old school with just cast iron bars keeping you from the teller. Deciding to camp at the 5 star campsite of the country we pedaled two miles east to the Winthrop KOA. A pool table, a pool, amazing showers, and laundry room was more than what we could ask for. Cleaning ourselves and our clothes was well past due. A fellow Bicycle Tourist from Conneticut passed our site and stopped to talk with us. He was cycling to anacortes and was two days away from his ending point. Warning of us 45 mph headwinds and gust in the midwest, massive flooding in north dakota, and a record breaking oil boom in whistleton both scared and excitied us of the weeks to come. As we walked twowars the shower we spotted his bulkey calves and began to compare ours to his. A couple more months and we will be there. Treating ourselves to a dinner in town we all shared a large pizza and had a burger each to ourselves. Back at camp we got eaten alive by mosquitos before crawling in the our tents for a deep sleep.