Oct 25, 2009 - Port Angeles

Victoria's Inner Harbor from the  deck of the MV Coho

Shared the morning ferry ride from Victoria harbor to Port Angeles with another cycle tourist returning from Alaska, headed for San Francisco....looking south as we glide into Port Angeles, the Olympic Range socked in with clouds and rain....

Cycling west along Highway 101 through Olympic National Park, around the southern shoreline of Lake Crescent.

Camped tonight with the South Bound Nomads  - Josh, Greg, and Wiley, from Vachon Island - they're headed south to California, then into Mexico.

I joined them for the ride into Forks, WA, where we splurged on burgers, pizza, and chocolate malts.

Apparently, the town of Forks has become a site of pilgrimage....Carloads of teenage girls cruise the streets, stopping to take photographs of the parking lot where Edward the perfectly-quaffed vegetarian vampire once parked his car.... 'Twilight-mania' has struck the Olympic Peninsula.