Day 18 – Leisurely riding.. Daily Distance: 87km Total Distance: 1847km At about 10:00am I awoke (catchup!) and packed up. I wanted to move, and one day of slowdown was enough. I said goodbye to Scott and Sarah, but not before grabbing their pictures and contact information. I’ve realized, there are alot of people that I would have liked to get photos of, but just didn’t think of it at the time. Sleep was tough. The raccoons were circling our area all night, sticking their faces under our flies, and [read more]
Sep 292009
Day 17 – The rehabilitation Daily Distance: 87km Total Distance: 1760km After I wrote the entry last night, things got a bit more intense. I met Sharon, my nurse, and Dr. Tamako, a young woman, who exclaimed that what I had done to my face was ‘gnarly’. I called her on it and asked if she was a surfer, and she was. They proceeded to numb my face, before putting 12 needles into my mouth, and chin. I freaked out a bit, while Eric took evidence of the whole scenario. [read more]
Daily Cycling Distance: 97km Total Cycling Distance: 1673km Daily Ambulance Distance: 20km Daily Car Distance: 20km Sometimes things just break. I started the day, still hearing the hippies and crazies from the night before who had obviously not gone to sleep and made the motions to clean up my area and move forward, knowing that the Leggit Hill was 2000 feet to climb, with another 900 footer afterwords. At the end of the day it turned out to be 4275 ft in total. The climb itself was easy, and we [read more]
Sep 272009
Daily Kilometres: 75km Total Kilometres: 1575km What an intense day. The heat that I experienced today in Humboldt/Mendocino Country has changed the way that I think about cycling in the heat. We all rode in pairs today to ensure that everyone was able to manage and ensuring that water was available for the short ride today from – to – State Park. Let me rewind back a day. I was in Eureka, fuming after dealing with personal emails, thus setting my mind to not checking my email for the remainder [read more]
Sep 262009
Mid day checkin, 1:01pm stealing wifi from the Econo Lodge outside, trying to find a sdit down restaurant with additional internet access has proven to be yet again difficult. Didn’t sleep well last night, experienced my first flat on the tour on the side of the US 101, now a 4 lane highway with maniacs whizzing by at high speed, and a bird poo on me, while fixing the flat. I’m tempted to stop, but don’t want to pay weekend hotel rates. Let’s see how the rest of the day [read more]
Sep 252009
Day 13 – Crazy Climbing Days Distance: 86km Total Distance: 1360km I fell asleep pretty hard after writing my epic entry yesterday, managing to charge my netbook to 100% in the process. I slept in my clothes, and tossed and turned come light, hoping to get a further couple of hours sleep, to rest, hoping for an easy light day. I exitted the tent at 8:30 and commenced packing, slowly and sluggishly. It was very foggy, yet comfortable to walk around in shorts while I sorted out the morning tasks. [read more]
Sep 242009
September 24 – Crescent City – Distance 144km Total Distance 1274km Whew! What a wild past two days. I didn’t feel like writing yesterday as I had a chip on my shoulder which I had a real difficult time keeping out of my conversations whether in person or in writing, so generally I clammed up to other cyclists and took a night off from the journal.\When I awoke in Sunset Bay, it was empty, from the packed night before, save for a straggler who showed up VERY late the night [read more]
Sep 242009
It’s been a long day, more like a long few. I’m busy uploading photos and charging, before I have to race over to find a state park to camp in, in CALIFORNIA!! I crossed over at about 3:00pm today on Thursday and now in Crescent City, to be continued….
Sep 232009
Day’s Total: 100km Total Distance: 1130km No update today due to frustration and not wanting to externalize my issues.
Sep 222009
Days Distance 94km Total Distance: 1030km Drastic, change of plans: It’s funny – how within a split second, everything can shift. Everything on this entire trip has shifted and things have come crashing down and I’ve got to stop and rethink things. I’m hurt, even after the meds still feeling random blots of pain, my skin is starting to actually bubble in various places popping at the touch, and my Icebreaker merino wool shirt was left outside in the dirt all night at the state park. This ruins the ability [read more]
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