Originally Posted by
76er
I rode east to west on the Bikecentennial Trans Am in 1976. Our group stayed at the Oregon Hotel in Mitchell on August 25, on of our rare nights indoors and in a bed.
Heh. The place is still there. We stayed in Mitchell during Cycle Oregon 2002. The route that year used some of the Trans Am route. Except we camped on a dusty cattle ranch. It looked like a refugee camp in a drought stricken region of Africa.