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A family's odyssey across America, on bikes

June 11th, 2021

6/11/2021

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Recap of first leg of the trip

  • 9 days of biking
  • Hot first few days
  • Fell behind a day in Portland, mechanical
  • Hot still biking out of Portland
  • Climbed near Mt Hood
  • First rain
  • Cool after with cold nights
  • Sarah's frozen like a popsicle 3 nights (miss labeled bag?)
  • Climbed a total of about 19k feet
  • Traveled 480 miles (garmin died once)
  • Some of us have ankle tan lines
  • Saw some riders of the Trans America race
  • Beautiful canyons
  • Beautiful mountains
  • Food went from foodie to cafeteria lunch
  • Chocolate chips are in short supply here
  • Hashbrowns over home fries here
  • Had a u nique hostel mate
  • Bought donuts at a hardware store
  • Made it to Boise
  • Saw some Backroads friends
  • Isabel got her second shot
  • Trying to find a route to Pocatello that's not too remote


We'll ride today if Isabel's feeling OK. Either way we'll have to vacate th Airbnb as it is rented tonight
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Aunt Kathleen
6/13/2021 03:45:56 pm

Why was Sarah cold?

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