Arcata

We have been motelled in Arcata CA for the last two nights, getting ready to leave this morning. I have a pair of shoes (Crocs) I ordered waiting for me at the Post Office. The original pair I started out with are wearing out. Arcata is a small college town (Humboldt State) on the coast that still has a number of it's original Victorian homes intact. We got to see a few of them as we rode into town. Arcata has a real town plaza, which we toured on foot on Saturday night. It is a large open green space with a statue in the middle and small shops and a hotel ringing the square. I really like it. Plus, the town has at least 4 bike shops, two of them on the same street as our motel. And an abundance of small, hip cafe's and other types of shops serving the college kids. I like Arcata.

I just found out that our blog is being followed by another blog called Bike Fun that runs on the Oregonlive.com website which I believe is published by the Oregonian newspaper, the biggest paper in Oregon. That would explain the number of hits the site has been getting. Cool. Ron.