A good weekend for surfing.

On Saturday we went surfing with our good friends Landon, Jared and Lindsey. The sun even came out to play! Dog and I played in the sand whilst the others rode the waves... lovely.

Numbers game.

Everyone seems to be interested in your 'stats' when you're on a bike trip. Other cyclists, the RVer in the rest area who just about creamed you in their gigantic RV just a bit back , and just about everyone else you meet all want to know. They want to know how far you are going, how many miles you do in a day, how many flats you've had (people assume they happen ALL the time) and so on.
So in that spirit, here are a few of our numbers. Just because I know you are interested (mom).


835 - miles we cycled in total. Thats 1344km for those that are imperial impaired.

427 - road kill specimens seen (I totally made that number up. But there were a lot. Some were fresh. Others weren't fresh at all. I wanted to hold funerals for them, but Kalen wouldn't let me)

82 - age of the average RV driver on highway 101 in Oregon. And their RVs are the same size as a Greyhound bus. Serious.

71 - the most miles we made it on one very long day (which also happened to be our last day... but that's another story)

52 - miles we averaged each day

17 - number of days we bicycled

$8 - cost of a campsite in Oregon State Parks... including free HOT showers!!!

5 - number of times we cooked mac & cheese for dinner. Blech. Thank goodness for Franks Red Hot.

3 - days it rained (yay for lots of sunshine!)

0 - number of flat tires we had. Zilch. Nada. Zero. It's true.

That's all.

beginning with an ending

That there is the Golden Gate Bridge. It is nice.

Especially because it marked the end of our 17 day bike ride from

Portland, Oregon to San Francisco.

We were oh, so happy to see it.

More exciting details coming your way soon... (I bet you can't wait)