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.