In Death Valley it started to become glaringly apparent that water was going to dictate the route. Originally we had planned to go north out of the valley and up into central Nevada, until we realized there would be a stretch for over 150 miles with no water. Bummer. One the other hand, Heath had…
If you want to get really specific, we're at Starbucks.
So we last left you in Trona... The early morning shock of how hard it is to pedal a bike, with roughly 5 Liters of water added to all your gear, is straight up depressing. I really didn't know if I was going to be able to climb 5000 ft with this burden dragging behind…
Continue reading ➞ The Good News: Late season heat wave in Death Valley
No one is pretending here. We have no idea what we're doing. It only took three days for us each to have a situation with our clip-in pedals (not counting the day I fell over in Heath's apartment learning how they worked). I was going uphill and was so tired I nicked the curb and…
Continue reading ➞ More day 2 misery pics & the stunning city of Trona
We've narrowed down the key ingredients to cycling in the the desert. You have to bring twice as much water as you think, and your butt is going to develope some "issues". There has been some googling of saddle sores already. Aside from that we're doing pretty good I think. We put in 93 miles…
Everything started out grand. Timothy from Sole Tech met us in Long beach, after our subway ride with the bikes, and bought us breakfast. With a country scramble in my belly we took off for the 35 mile bike path to the Angels Crest road out of Azuza. Man, climbing is waaay harder than it…
I'm up late and we leave to cross the country in the morning.
WE'RE REALLY DOING IT 