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ET from Columbia on 5/29/2006 9:04:45 PM:
Our Sunday ride was our longest ever-46 miles, and with the heat it was all we would want to do--the kids (9 & 11) were good sports, though, and followed the "no whining until we are at least halfway there" rule! I had forgotten how many times the trail crosses highway 94 in this section--and I thought some of the crossing are potentially fairly dangerous, right on big bends in the road. We stopped at the Peers store for lunch and had a look at the room she rents for a very reasonable price ($45 or so, including breakfast, depending on number in the party). Definitely an option when watching the budget. We stayed that night at the Doll House in Rhineland, where we were greeted with homemade chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. For dinner, we had pre-arranged a meal cooked by Amanda, and it was wonderful--pasta, salad, homemade bread, sugarsnap peas and onions straight out of the garden, and chocolate cake garnished with home-grown strawberries, and she provided a bottle of wine from a Hermann winery. Our room opened onto the upstairs porch, where the porch swing was a shady, comfortable place to spend the evening until we collapsed early. Breakfast was again huge and excellent, featuring home-grown strawberries, eggs, bacon and french toast. We then met up with some friends from Columbia, who, with their 4 children travelling by bike, trail-a-bike, and trailer, rode with us to Mokane. Shaved ice at Bluffton was a big hit, and we were very glad to find the bar in Portland open for lunch. As we rode through Steedman, the woman from the house next to the bar offered us water and emerged from her house with a big pitcher of ice water. That kept us going to Mokane, where we managed to shuttle our cars and load up before the rain hit us on our way back to Columbia. We thought the trail was fairly busy Saturday, about average on Sunday, and very empty on Monday --possibly due to the 90-plus degree temps!