No big storm last night. Bit of rain, small wind. Continental breakfast in tent. 20 mile ride to Bandon on backroad atop high ridge in fog. Stop to buy lube for bike at south coast cycles (the first of many visits to this rather nice bike shop with a novice woman and cranky know it all boss).
Old town Bandon for lunch with 4 recent college grads from South Dakota. They scored a warmshowers.com spot for the evening from cafe. I found low pressure front tire and decided to head back 1/2 mile to bike shop for fix and quick lesson in the ways of flats. 4 grads show up with broken tandem at same time; shop starts to hop, boss gets short with Nels over pressa valve issue. Get very interesting blow by blow on tire tech from boss, assistant warned repeatedly to watch the floor. B says he has to get out; too tense. I stick for a while and am told my front brake caliper is misaligned and since it is apparently mine to figure out I go outside and work on front brake.
Meanwhile B has gone to library and signed up for warmshowers.com and gets a place a couple of miles out of town with a fellow named Brian Kraynik and family.
We kill a couple of hours at high-end eatery overlooking the water - two glasses of tempranio and a plate of gnocchi.
We head out for Brian's place but he wanted some beer (Deschutes Summer Twilight) and hamburger buns so we stop at Ray's Food Place for those items.
Arrive at home of Kraynik and are greeted by Mr. Peepers who may bite according to Kraynik but he will not break skin. Mr. Peepers is a push-over and soon whole family arrives from How to Train Your Dragon in Coos Bay.
The little boy of the family hails us with the phrase his daddy taught him to say to all bike tour people who come for the night (500 and counting) and it is, "Pay some taxes!"
Brian is a true believer, is 6' 5" and requires a history reading of the building and effects of the Erie Canal on Google Docs and a subsequent comment on the goodness of a dedicated bike lane on 101 down the Oregon coast.
Then hamburgers and beer are consumed.
Nicole Kraynik is starting full time teaching at Bandon school district in the fall and Brian continues to develop his portable basketball hoop system called the Drive-by-Shooter.
Watched a bit of Frozen and then all to bed.
Said Goodbye and thanks to Brian in the morning and back to the same restaurant in which the process had started the day before; the cheap lunch place not the high-end gnocchi joint.
Kraynik home
View from front yard
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