Anchorage to Phoenix Bike Ride: Day 70

In the morning I made shrimp scampi with canned shrimp. The weather was perfect with a lot of sun.

I rode through Brookings and I had to put sunscreen on. Soon I was in California and I rode into Crescent City. I bought a taco at a small local Mexican restaurant. At the visitor’s center in Crescent City a lady gave me a map and indicated where there was a closed campground called Mill Creek. It was a long climb out of Crescent City that took me about 45 minutes to climb.

I went under the gate into Mill Creek Campground and immediately started going down hill. I didn’t like this because I knew I would have to climb back up the hill in the morning. I had forgotten to fill my water bottles and I wanted to get to a water source so I kept going downhill. The hill kept going down for 2 miles before I reached the campsites. I filled up my water bottles at a spigot.

I tucked my tent back into a campsite so I wouldn’t be visible from the road. I had to move a picnic table a little bit to setup my tent. I had beans and rice for dinner. After dinner I looked outside my tent and there were hundreds of centipedes right outside my tent door. There were too many to kill.

At night the Redwood trees made a lot of noise. The wind was blowing the treetops but it was calm at my tent. I heard leaves and branches falling through the trees all night. I had no cell reception and no one knew where I was. It was scary.