Larry - A Change!
After some consternation about spring weather, we’ve decided to push
back our BIG RIDE start date to June 1.
The more we studied how cold it can be out west even into late June, the
more we knew we were tempting fate with a May 1 departure.
Of course, that still left the issue of
Mother’s 90th birthday coming up in mid-July. Mother, as ever, was so gracious and agreed
to move her party up to late May.
So now we’re set to fly into D.C. on
Saturday, June 1 and probably start pedaling the following Tuesday after a
little sightseeing in the capital. We’re
still doing a few little bike tweaks and have yet to do a loaded shake-down
ride.
We
have done a couple of out of town week-end rides in Hot Springs, Arkansas and
Lost Creek, White County, Tn recently.
Hilly terrain in both places that made us appreciate some of those low
gears I’ve been talking about. We found
a three mile climb into Spencer, Tn. Almost
hard to imagine that we’ll have climbs four times that length in a lot of
places as we cross the Rockies!So the countdown, after a small reset, continues. We fly ten weeks from Saturday!
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