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Ceremonial Start

August 3, 2016

On the Pacific in Florence, Oregon

One of the things you’re supposed to do on a cross-country bike ride is bring your bike down to the water of the ocean you start at.  You have no choice. So that was on the agenda this morning.  The ride to the ocean was the easy part. Carrying the bike with the gear across an incredibly wide beach with mini-sand dunes down to flat land may go down as the hardest part of this trip.

There weren’t many people at all along the beach.  Thankfully a mother and daughter [Read more…]

--Pre-Trip, Oregon, Transamerica Trail cycling blog dm4212@gmail.com

The Myanmar Connection

August 2, 2016

As I had taught for four fantastic years in Myanmar, aka Burma, I know just how kind the people from there are.  I was very lucky yesterday to meet someone from Myanmar at the right time.

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--Pre-Trip, Oregon, Transamerica Trail cycling blog dm4212@gmail.com

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