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Continue reading →: Day 6 – Lake Easton to Ellensburg56 miles (90 km) – Total so far: 416 miles (669 km) Time riding 4 hours 7 mins Max speed 36.4 mph Average speed 14.1 mph Altitude 428 meters asl Left at 10:00 am (breakfast at 10:10 am) Arrived 3:02 pm The Turtle Saloon was a decent end to a log…
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Continue reading →: Day 5 – Seattle to Lake Easton79 miles (127 km) – Total so far: 360 miles (579 km) Time riding (9 hours 10 mins) Max speed 43.8 mph Average speed 10.3 mph Altitude 675 meters asl Left at 7:50 am Arrived at 6:50 pm Today was always going to be one of the longest of the course,…
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Continue reading →: Day 4 – Sequim Bay to Seattle64 miles (103 km) – Total so far: 281 miles (452 km) Time riding 5 hours 56 mins Average speed 10.8 mph Max speed 32.5 mph Altitude 72 meters asl Left at 7:10 am (breakfast after 20 minutes) Arrived at 4:15 pm Not such great riding today. The Discovery Trail finishes…
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Continue reading →: Day 3 – Jordan River to Sequim Bay70 miles (113 km) – Total so far: 217 miles (349 km) A day of three thirds. The first after leaving Jordan River on a pleasantly cool misty morning and continuing the west coast ride from yesterday. For thirty kilometres it was again very light in traffic and meandered up and…
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Continue reading →: Day 2 – Lake Cowichan to the Jordan River68 miles (109 km) – Total so far: 147 miles (236 km) 6 am and different noises outside the tent to last night. Birds and squirrels, wind in the trees. Last night wasn’t a great site at all. It was dirty; people had washed dishes at stand pipes, and dumped old…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 – Vancouver to Lake Cowichan72 miles (116 km) – Total so far: 79 miles (127 km) Time riding 6 hours 57 mins Average speed 10.4 Max speed 32 mph Altitude Left at 7:30 am Arrived at 6:10 pm In my chosen cheap range of Downtown Vancouver hotel they offer a free breakfast, cereal, coffee, croissant…
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Continue reading →: Day 0 – The Journey7 miles (11 km) – Total so far: 7 miles (11 km) Experience over the years has taught me how to get rid of much of the hassle of flying with the bike. But not all of it. The discomfort starts with Manchester Airport. Living in the middle of nowhere means…
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Continue reading →: Day 30 Boulder – chilling out and packing up
It is the end of another course. Time to look back briefly, and set it into the annals. I always like to finish with Marco Polo’s words: “But, I have not told you the half of it”. 8 Divide Crossings, the highest being the Milner Pass at 10,759 feet on…
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Continue reading →: Day 29 Allen’s Park to Boulder41 miles (66 km) – Total so far: 1,458 miles (2,346 km) The sun rises here at about 6:50 am at the moment and it’s hard to be in the tent after that. The forecast is for mid30s temperature today. I was packed and away for 7:45 am, and up the…
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Continue reading →: Day 27 Estes Park to Allen’s Park26 miles (42 km) – Total so far: 1,404 miles (2,260 km) Estes Park is what it is, and the camping though expensive was functional and quiet after 9 pm, or at least I didn’t notice if there was noise. The biggest problem right now with the town is getting out…
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Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
