Planning day

We really are living in the 'burbs right now.  (Something we have managed to avoid for the last 5 years).  However, we are staying in a typical Portland house.  Our apartment is an annex on the right side of this house.  It's very cosy, and the owner who lives next door is very helpful and friendly, he even has 6 bicycles and two tandems stored in his basement.  Fortunately, there was also room for our two shiny red bicycles as well.

Today we start some serious planning for the rest of the trip.  When we set off we had only booked a few nights accomodation in Seattle and a few nights in Portland.  

We find a coffee house in Powell's bookstore, buy some maps, hook up to the internet and get stuck into the research.

The outline plan is now coming together, we'll spend the rest of week in Portland, then hire a car for a week to see the Oregon coast and Crater lake, then fly to Las Vegas to hire an RV and tour the canyons, then fly to San Francisco and hire another car to tour around California.

So now we know what we want to do it's just a matter of booking everything.

Yes, there is a spreadsheet involved!