By Frosty Wooldridge “It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” ~ Heinz Stucke, bicycle touring around the world for 50 years and still traveling (Wayne at the top of Crane Pass on Route 20 heading east toward Corvallis, Oregon.) Next day, we pedaled into Eddyville, Oregon. A roadside marker reported that a man named Israel Eddy homesteaded the area but when the train came through, he gave up the land as long as the railroad owners named the town after him. To this day, Eddyville remains a thriving community of two broken down trailers, a junkyard and a prefabricated U.S. Post Office with a zip code to service the various vagrants that inhabit the mobile homes around the town.
Read more about Part 3: Bicycle Coast to Coast Across America—pedaling into the Cascades
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