Day 29, 9/12/08

We awoke to find that our panniers had been ransacked...by raccoons. Before we go to bed every night we put everything away except for our stove and a pot of water to boil for coffee the next morning. We close and latch the panniers and leave them on top of the picnic table. Two panniers were on the ground this morning. We discovered that the raccoons were able to reach their grubby little hands up inside the top cover of the small pannier, tear through 2 plastic bags and remove the remaining half loaf of bread. This hazelnut bread is what we make our peanut butter banana sandwiches on and now it is gone. To add insult to injury, I had to scrub a muddy mixture of raccoon saliva mixed with hazelnut drool off the outside surface of the pannier.

Turns out we camped at the Ocean Cove RV campground, not Stillwater Cove. Private vs County. Was a bit more expensive, but it all worked out fine.








Another big day - 70 miles. But so much climbing! We briefly saw some sun just south of Jenner, but otherwise was overcast the rest of the day. Pretty nice conditions for all the climbing we did though. We rode from a few miles north of Fort Ross to Samuel P. Taylor State Park, which is a few miles south of Pt. Reyes Station. Got into camp after dark again. Some familiar faces from the past few days were already there, Thomas and Zena from Berlin, Gary from Canada, and Sammy.











We had bow tie pasta with a basil/artichoke/parmesan sauce, sourdough baguette, and a bottle of cab. We picked up some bar cookie things at the Tomales Bakery that were made with oats, sunflower seeds, raisins and honey. They weighed a ton and topped off our dinner perfectly. We we were getting ready for bed we noticed the fairly large raccoon population descending down from the woods to see what they could scavenge from the campsites. We put the panniers containing food into the bear box. The coons were raising quite a racket trying to get into a neighbors food box. Successfully, it turned out. They ate all Gary's pasta.