Jessie Honeyman to Bandon

Just for a change of pace, it was raining when I got up. My strategy for pacjking in the rain is to throw everything in my bags, roll. My bike into the bathroom,  then drag my tent to the bathroom and break down and sort everything where it's dry. Then I eat breakfast in the bathroom.
I get some funny looks in the morning.
It's been said that God looks out for children, drunkards, and idiots, and I guess that must be true because the rain let up about ten miles into my ride.
Even so, I was calling uncle on today's ride. I needed to dry literally everything I owned and I needed an easy day to try and patch back together my battered spirit. Band on was only 70 miles away and I rknew I was going to put myself up at a motel there.
Rolling hills and no sholder was thee order of the morning. When the shoulder is narrow or non existent, the safe thing to do is position your bike towards the middle of the lane so that cars are forced over the line to pass you. If yopu stay by the edge, they often pass terrifyingly close and if you accidentally twitch, you're dead.
Unfortunately, even if I'm in the middle of the damn lane, some people will not shift over to pass.

North Bend has yet another bridge, and I had yety another car try to kill me. This time the passenger rolled down his window and yelled idiot in my face as they passed. I responded that he was #1. (Don't do that. Road rage is real.)
Turning left another driver tried to hit be from behind.
After North Bend comes 7 Devil's Road, a lovely series of, you guess it, seven hills. Three of the five have section above 11%. This is the only time I wished for a smaller gear. Some kind soul had taken it upon themselves to label the tops of each "devil," so you knew hjow !many more you had to climb: 1...2...3...4...5...5 again? Then comes the spray painted, "Haha, this is five. Not the last one." Curse you.
After 7 Devil's, it was on!y a few more miles to Band on and my spirits were higher than they'd been since Canada.
I'd made good time,it wasn't raining, and I'd hopefully get everything dry for tomorrow and my final day in this godforsaken state.