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We're idiots
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Gear, cost, and packing. Here's what they look like beforehand, anyway. Mike is out of his mind. He initially concocted this grand scheme and will very likely be doing most of the cooking on trail (french omelettes ftw). Mike enjoys running through woods, candle-lit beer dinners, and performing maintenance on just about any piece of machinery in sight. This project is generously hosted by GitHub. And powered by Jekyll. All source is open and available here.
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The Route -- holy !$@#
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Gear, cost, and packing. This is a sketch of what we plan to do. If you want to see exactly what we do as we do it, check out our daily logs. We leave on Wednesday May 18 2011. The length of the trip is projected at 56 days. We didn't budget in any rest days, since we have no idea how many will be necessary. We may also spend a few days tooling around a few particularly cool areas as per recommendations we've received:. Napa Valley, CA. We'd love to hear about any other places worth getting to know.
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Day 38: Tough road to Westcliffe
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Gear, cost, and packing. Day 38: Tough road to Westcliffe. Day 38, June 24th; morning light streamed into a bedroom and I sensed nothing but quiet. I rolled around, trying to forget what day it was and what I knew the day would entail. That day, we’d be leaving Pueblo and entering into the Rocky Mountains. Getting up was difficult and wonderful. For a variety of reasons. Mike returned and we assembled for inspection by the front door. Patti hugged Mike, then held me awhile. We shared a goodbye pe...Outsi...
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Our Stuff
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Gear, cost, and packing. This is the raw planning material we built up in preparation. It's more likely to be up-to-date than the tables below, but it won't give you a quick summary of total cost. Mike's 1990 Specialized Hardrock at left, James' 1991 Trek 750 at right. One of the motifs of this trip (besides attempting to stay alive) is to succeed as cheaply as possible. Mike, bike geek that he is, initially had a fair inventory of biking equipment and only picked up around $200 in extra bike hardware.
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Training
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Gear, cost, and packing. We were relatively relaxed when it came to training. Both of us bike commute to school for approximately a 30 mile trip, three days a week. In addition, we sporadically did some weekend rides which were sometimes documented as well as an overnight trip in Southeastern North Carolina. Day -2: The Weatherman Always gets the Last Laugh. Day -12: DC Antics. Day -26: Ride with Will B. This project is generously hosted by GitHub. And powered by Jekyll.
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Hot links!
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Gear, cost, and packing. Oh my god. The Closeout King. We got numerous things here on the cheap and saved a ton of dough. Especially on panniers. Deals abound. We even developed a little product searching algorithm (nerds):. Filter for Prime shipping. Filter for 3 stars. Mike's talking about publishing a paper. We saved stacks. Where else you can get a used 90s mountain bike in superb condition on the cheap? I don't know. I don't want to know. Vélocity Bicycle Cooperative. Crazy Guy on a Bike.
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Recapitulation
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Gear, cost, and packing. We biked through the city to the Haight, where we stayed with our kind hosts, Nancy and Mike, on Broderick and Divisidero. I spent the next few days trying to collect myself, mostly in isolation and trying to avoid action. Mike, characteristically, spent those days exploring the city determinedly on his bike. On Broderick, in SF. Monarch pass, the highest point of the trip. Outside of Payson, Utah. I do feel raw about leaving this blog unfinished. I have tried a few times to ...
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Temporary hiatus due to broken laptop
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Gear, cost, and packing. Temporary hiatus due to broken laptop. As I write this, my laptop battery shows a charge of 11%. That 11% is the last I’ll get out of it until I send the laptop back to Asus’ shop in Taiwan for repairs, which, in all likelihood, will take close to two months. I’m still deciding how to handle this. I’ll assuredly be cranking out posts for later transcription to the net (since I want mitigate the toll that time takes on memory), but probably in longhand, on paper, s...While I’...
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