Day 4

Driving back and forth between Berry's house various autoparts stores in Lincoln City, the bike is eventually fixed. As it is beginning rain hard, as predicted the night of Day 3 by a friend of Berry who used to work for the USAF as a weather man, I decided to purchase "100% Waterproof" pants for the ride south. Cameron and I hit the road on the way South by 1:30 PM, in an attempt to reach a Suzuki shop in Coos Bay before closing time. Coos Bay is about 127 miles from Lincoln City. By 2:00 PM we were driving in a heavy downpour with occasional gusts of wind off the ocean. As the weather worsened Cameron and I found out that all the supposedly waterproof gear that we were both wearing did not work very well. The boots leaked (Cameron's theory was that the books leaked just enough to let water in but not enough to let water out), the winter gloves leaked, the pants leaked (on Cameron's pants they leaked only in his crotch area), and my jacket leaked too. After an hour of driving in this hard rain we stopped at a McDonald's and ate lunch. We both got burgers and coffees. I spilled a big coffee all over the resturant. Cameron got frustrated that the insulation on the coffee cup was preventing the coffee from warming his hands and strips off the insulation in a long spiral shape. The approximate two gallons of water soaked in our cloths and boots, slowly trickles onto the floor of the restaurant. Learning my lesson from the day before I change my clothes in the restaurant bathroom. Later Cameron and I both agree that this was the worst actual destruction we had done to a restaurant.

We continue driving south in the rain, reaching Coos Bay at 5:30 PM, too late to make our appointment at the Suzuki dealership. We decide to get a room for the evening and check into a Motel 6, ruining the hotel lobby with our accumulated rain water. As everything was soaking wet, Cameron and I do laundry, iron our money, checks, and other important documents and try to dry other wet cloths on a room heater.