Trailbums

Finally, at last the website’s back in action that is.  Pat’s finally back from “recovering” at home and on the trail again.  All the pictures from the last 3 months or so have finally been downloaded and edited.  They still need a little naming and categorizing, but at least now they can be seen.  We are going to start a new gallery too with “Whats New.”  Whenever we update the images we will copy it to that gallery so you don’t have to go looking for the new stuff.

As for the bums, we just left Eureka CA heading for the lost coast trail.  Its  a beautiful section of California coast.  Lots of great photos will be coming out of that stretch, so stay tuned.  We need to make a thank you to all who helped get us back on the road and helped replace items “removed by mysterious forces” while in Eureka.  Specifically, Tamara and Damon’s family.  And also thank you to Pat’s dad for putting him back out on the trail.  That’s all for now.  Enjoy the new pics, and look forward to the lost coast (we are)

-The Bums

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Hey everyone its me Damon.  I am currently in the windy town of Gold Beach OR, about 39 miles north of California.  I am currently waiting on a package to arrive at the local post office.  A crap ton of stuff has happened since Pat went home two months ago to recover and become a lazy, beer drinking, tri tip eating, lack of blog updating fool. Some good some bad. I have more pics and a few fun stories to share when I get a chance to use a real computer.  I am looking forward to Cali and should be there some time next week.

A little update on what our plans are at this point.  I’m (Pat) in San Jose recovering after the surgery.  Everything went well in the surgery, but it will still be 2-3 weeks before I’m aloud to put the pack back on.

Recovery Pat

In the meantime Damon is on the trail and making his way south.  I’ll also be using this time to edit images and make general improvements to the site.  So watch for new pretty images and updates on Damon’s progress.  Thanks for being patient with us while we figure out how to make the best of our situation.

-The Bums

Bad news.  Turns out there’s going to be a short break in the trip.  I (Pat) was admited to the hospital with abdominal pain.  Turns out I have a large gallstone and need to have my gallbladder removed.  I’ll be going into surgery tomorrow morning.  Assuming everything goes right I’ll be out a day later, but not allowed to put the pack back on for a couple of weeks.  The plan for the moment is for Damon to continue hiking on and making progress for us, and I’ll rejoin him when and where I can.  Untill then I’ll be sitting here in the 4 star resort of Samaritan Pacific Hospital in Newport Oregon.  Hopefully we’ll be able to use this downtime to make improvments to the site and edit more images.  So enjoy the pretty pictures and hopefully we’ll both be back on the raod again soon.

Hospital Pat

 -The Bums

The bums want to wish a very happy mothers day to all the moms out there.  And an extra special mothers day to two mothers in particular.  Have a great day.

Happy Mothers Day

 -The Bums

No we did not get lost and end up in Nebraska, we are in Lincoln City Orgeon about a quarter of the way down Orgeon.  We did not know what to expect before we got here on acount of everyone telling us just how bad or boring Lincoln City was.  As  it turns out it is actulay kinda of a fun little city. We addmit its not the prettiest city  the beaches are pretty bland but it does have a nice casino and a kick ass skatepark.  We ended up staying a few days longer then planed mainly beacause the casino kept giving us free money to gamble with.  We never won big but we both hit fithteen dollar slots and they gave us each a free meal at the buffet.  After everything we probably cost the casino a hundred bucks, thanks Chinook Winds Casino. We did spend some of are time away from the casino mainly at the library and the skateboard park. We meet some cool kids from Pacific City named Matt and Adam, a realy nice couple at the local book store and two of the coolest cops we meet in long time. Thanks for not tazing us.  Anyway tonight we are heading south again towards Depoe Bay and we should be in Newport before too long.  Untill next time

-The bums.

Just a quick post to keep everybody up to date on our progress.  We are currently in Pacific City Oregon.  We should be headed on southward again tomorrow.  There’s still a lot of Oregon to go, but we’re starting to make some progress through it. 

By the way, it’s come to our attention that we forgot to thank Dale for the awsome fire he made us back at the Peter Iredale.  Very impressive Dale!

And now we head back out into the rain to walk the 1.5 miles to camp.

-The Bums

Walking along the beach for this long you start to nitice a lot of things.  One of those things is the various ways people choose to move across the beach.  We obviously have choosen the slowest and most difficult means, other then riding a turtle.  This has at times made us envy the speedier modes of transportaion, but has also alowed us to enjoy the senery that others are flying past.  Since southern Washington those speedier modes have started to even include cars on the beach.  (Walking on the road and walking on the beach have been at times equally dangerous)  Watching people cruise by in their SUV’s does kind of make us miss the rugged inacesability of Washingtons Olympic Coast.  Other fun methods of beach travel we’ve seen have included ATV’s, quads, dirtbikes, horses, and even sandboards (think snowboard but without the snow)  And of course, with something as fun as sandboarding, we had to try it.  Deffinetly even more fun then it sounds.  Pat even did rather well, considering it was his first downhill board sport.  We had so much fun in fact that it drove us to develope our own sport for those of us without sandboards.  We call it throwing yourself down a steep dune!  and we can’t even use the excuse of being drunk)  We’re going to go try to finish getting all the sand out of everywhere, but check out the pics. Hopefully we can get some sequences up soon.  Until then, get out of your cars and walk on the beach.

-The Bums

To keep everyone up to date with all the stupid things we do, we thought we would update you on our most recent major injury.  Pat burned himself on some flaming oil on our camp stove.  Cold meat + hot oil = good times!

Dont worry, Pat survived and the jurney continues.  There will definetly be more stupidity to come.

-The Bums