It’s been a while since my last post…I’ve been busy. My Oregon/San Francisco trip has come to an end. Overall it was a successful trip, but a bittersweet one. My mother, who’d been ill, passed on while I was away. I’d spent a lot of time with her before I left and she encouraged me to go so I don’t feel bad about going. I do feel bad about losing her, but in truth she had a wonderful life, loved much, was loved, and left the world richer than she found it. She’ll be missed.
As for the trip, Erich and I managed to hit a bad week of Oregon weather. The week before we arrived the weather was nice, the week following was the same. Our week looked a lot like this, in fact, exactly like this:
Of course the entire nine days wasn’t that wet, though I think we hit some rain pretty much every day. Indeed there were two days that it rained so hard we couldn’t ride safely at all. Those days we decided to take a local bus to the next town. Both times visibility on the road was bad enough that, while we were disappointed in missing the ride, we applauded ourselves for making the right choice.
There’ll be a lot more for me to say about the trip, but you can read more about it on ‘crazyguyonabike’ here: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/oregonpie2012
I’ve got to finish up the journal, but most of the ride is documented, if not illustrated.
Here’s the final shot of the ride (though not of the vacation)…
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…
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