Day 169 - 18th November, Phillipsville - Garberville - Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area (Leggett), 37.4 miles

Dnes je zase zatiahnute. Prechadzame dalsimi podivnymi mesteckami ako napr. Garberville, vsake tu vidno "nizkorozpoctovych" dharmovych tulakov za stastim, zvacsa v prastarych obytnych autach alebo inak na zivot prisposobenych vozitkach, alebo len tak s batohom a psom, hladajucich asi Jackov Kerouacov sen o slobode. V blizkosti potravin ich postavala cela tlupa, mal som z toho dost zmiesane pocity, mozno to bolo aj z toho vonaveho dymu co sa od nich zvacsa valil. Ale potraviny v Garberville ma milo prekvapili, relativne lacne, mali tam vsetko to co spravny dharmovy tulak na bicykli potrebuje a hrala tam prijemna hudba, tie najlepsie pecky zo 60 rokov. Po nakupoch sme pokracovali dalej, podmracenym dnom. Navecer sme stretli na kraji cesty stopujuceho bajkera. Volal sa Jay a isiel len "kusok" z Arcaty do San Franciska. Mysleli sme si, ze ma nieco s bicyklom, ale nakoniec vysvitlo, ze chcel len zviest po najblizsi kemp, lebo uz sa stmievalo a on nemal svetlo. My sme svetla mali a tak sme mu ponukli, ze moze ist s nami. Mozno to nakoniec aj trochu lutoval, lebo potom sme tahali este skoro dve hodiny, po hnusne uskej ceste s neprijemne hustou premavkou, po tme a navyse zacalo celkom slusne liat. Asi si musel mysliet ze Slovaci su pekne prasteny, ked takto jazdia, co nam ale tu v uzasnej USA ostava, ked vsetko je zadrotovane a sukromne a navyse tu sa  aj tak inde ostat nedalo nez Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area, kde sme to napokon zalomili na noc (ono, dalo sa ostat este v jednom komercnom kempe co bol blizsie, ale komu sa chce platit 40$ za noc?). V Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area nas nastastie nikto neskasiroval, takze sme tam prespali zadarmo, ale ich stvrtakove sprchy si pochutnali na nasich poslednych stvrtakoch co sme mali a potom aj tak odmietli fungovat, zlaty to Oregon so svojimi sprchami zadarmo...

Cloudy day, strange small towns, cool grocery store in the Garberville, where they played oldies, a lot of "hippies" in old vanes, a lot of bums and hobos and a lot of smell of the marihuana smoke everywhere.
The hwy is still copying the river, in quite nice valley. In the evening we met one biker - Jay. He was hitchhiking, because it was getting dark and he didn't have any lamp. He was on the way from Arcata to San Francisco. We offered him that he can go with us, we had lights :-) Well, I don't know how happy he was, because than we pedalled for nearly two hours in the dark. The road was windy with no real shoulder and deep canyon on our right side, it started to rain and the traffic was heavy. Probably he had to think that Slovaks are pretty crazy people if they ride in this conditions, well, we are, this wasn't first nor last time what we did it. Standish-Hickey State Recreational Area was fine, but they stupid showers ate all our quarters and refuse to work. How we missed Oregon and they showers for free...