No Time to Stop
Hello Everybody,
Sorry we have not been updating our page very often. When your cycling 80 miles a day there isn't much time for anything else. THe past three days have been flat (compared to BC) so we have banged out some big mileage days.
Just to let you know we've just entered the state of Oregon. The weather is getting hotter now (reaching 30 degrees), having been very temperate in British Columbia (with three days of rain as well).
So this morning we went through our first tunnel then cycled over a very long 3 mile bridge which was rather fun!!! Last night in our campsite after cooking pork chops, pasta in tomato sauce and salad I (Richard) packed all the left over food, milk and salad into one of my front pannier bags and set it under our bench (next to Bens tent). This morning it had dissappeared!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently the local racoons and quite resourceful and have pulled cooler boxes from peoples campsites before so I am now minus a pannier bag and missing lunch. Not a big problem but my spare chain was also in the bag so was quite an expensive mistake.
We have met other cyclists who are doing the route too. We passed a Swiss family yesterday with twice as much kit as us, and overtook them on a hill and also met a lone cyclist from San Diego, Steve who we shared dinner with two nights ago (we had fresh salmon, mashed potato and green beans, then treated ourselves to icecream from a petrol station down the road. (So anybody who is concerned we are not eating well can be rest assured them we are easily consuming 2000 calories a day!!!
Sadly the computer I'm at does not like my memory card and I can't upload photos, but maybe next time!
See you all soon
Rich and Ben
Sorry we have not been updating our page very often. When your cycling 80 miles a day there isn't much time for anything else. THe past three days have been flat (compared to BC) so we have banged out some big mileage days.
Just to let you know we've just entered the state of Oregon. The weather is getting hotter now (reaching 30 degrees), having been very temperate in British Columbia (with three days of rain as well).
So this morning we went through our first tunnel then cycled over a very long 3 mile bridge which was rather fun!!! Last night in our campsite after cooking pork chops, pasta in tomato sauce and salad I (Richard) packed all the left over food, milk and salad into one of my front pannier bags and set it under our bench (next to Bens tent). This morning it had dissappeared!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently the local racoons and quite resourceful and have pulled cooler boxes from peoples campsites before so I am now minus a pannier bag and missing lunch. Not a big problem but my spare chain was also in the bag so was quite an expensive mistake.
We have met other cyclists who are doing the route too. We passed a Swiss family yesterday with twice as much kit as us, and overtook them on a hill and also met a lone cyclist from San Diego, Steve who we shared dinner with two nights ago (we had fresh salmon, mashed potato and green beans, then treated ourselves to icecream from a petrol station down the road. (So anybody who is concerned we are not eating well can be rest assured them we are easily consuming 2000 calories a day!!!
Sadly the computer I'm at does not like my memory card and I can't upload photos, but maybe next time!
See you all soon
Rich and Ben
posted by Ben and Rich at 11:23 AM
1 Comments:
Racoon my foot, the phantom pie eater was Ben during the night!!
Good to here you guy's are ok, keep up the good work.
Steve and Vic
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