A temporary setback

Ryan flew off to Portland to meet Jesse without me since I somehow managed to tweak my back on Sunday. My plan is to recooperate and meet them in Clarkson, WA about a week into the trip. We shall see.

Interim means of locomotion


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Preparing for the ride

Practice setting up the tents where its warm and dry!

Living room bivouac


Trail loading of Ryan's bike.


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Bike Route

This is the complete route plan layed out on the kitchen floor from Astoria, OR to Cambridge, MA. The total length of our ride is 4330 miles. Our path will follow the Adventure Cycling Lewis and Clark trail from Astoria, OR (or Portland) to Jefferson, SD where we hook up with RAGBRAI to ride across Iowa and then follow the Adventure Cycling Northern Tier route to Rochester, NY. There we follow the NY state Route 5 bicycle route to the border of MA. Finally we navigate backroads across MA to Cambridge. If all goes well the total trip length will be approximately 64 days. I have been busy packing for 2 weeks. Ryan on the other hand is taking a more relaxed approach and probably won't pack until the night before we plan to leave.


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Snow on the 7th of June

Started to snow last night around 7PM. This was the scene this morning about 8:30AM.


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Sierra Century

Rode the Sierra century on Saturday with Robert, Ryan and Wallace. A lot of other folks from Truckee were also on the ride including Bonnie and Leeds (Sierra Century 2005). Camped out Friday night in the Amador County Fairgrounds. Rode the metric century. It was challenging enough some 67 miles with 4600 feet of climbing.

Saurday morning tooth hygene at the campsite.


The gang.


On the fly.




Ryan.






Robert


Bonnie and Leeds


Me


Ride over, time to cool down!


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Test of my new camera phone

This is my first mobile blog. If it works then this is one way I will be able to update the blog while we are on our cross country bike trip. The picture was taken of my Tusunami touring bike made by Seven Cycles, parked outside my home in truckee. My phone is a Motorola V710.

Coast to Coast Bike Ride

I've been dreaming of riding across the country for many years. Well it looks now that this is the year. Much to my surprise Ryan who is going to MIT asked a few months ago if I would be interested in doing that this summer. He had been talking about it with his friend Jesse, another MIT student. Well I am thrilled. Our scheduled departure is around june 15th. Much to do before that to get ready for the trip. Bonnie has been kind enough to accept caring for Sam. Thanks Bonnie you're super, just like Donna said.

Ryan, Jesse and I are still discussing the route. Ryan and Jesse want to start the trip by taking the Transamerica trail while I favor the Lewis and Clark trail.

This is my version of the route.


This is Ryan and Jesse's plan Ryan's Route.

Can a 67 year old keep pace with two 20 year olds?

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A Pony some Ducks and a New Toy

Pinto spotted on a Reno ride last Friday. Mt Rose in background.


Ducks on Lake Notoma in Sacramento observed while riding the Tandem on the American River Parkway bike trail with Sandy on Sunday.


My new toy a Garmin eTrex Vista C GPS receiver.


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2005 Reno River Festival

More pics from Reno's River Festival on Sunday where the featured race was a river cross race where 4 kayakers start simultaniously and race downriver.

The start


The finish


The course


Womens winner


Colors


Play time



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Sacramento Bike Trail on a Saturday

On Saturday I rode in Sacramento with Wallace along the American River Trail. Total of 66 miles on the Litespeed.

Wallace and I at the beginning of the ride


The Path


The midpoint Old Town Sacramento


Happened on to a meeting of the Segway club in Old Town


Met Robert and Scott along the path. Scott is riding his new bike a Trek model 1200.


Scott Robert and Andy at Folsom Lake which was the end of the our ride. Robert and Scott still had a ways to go.


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