Bye Bye

The past few years have been pretty packed with long adventures, but the prep-time for this one took the cake by far. The entire week that we've been in Georgia has been stuffed with bike work, research, bike work, chores, stress, etc etc etc, and a tiny bit of visiting friends. A wheel was rebuilt, new brakes installed, and a thrift-store front rack rigged onto my fork with some misc hardware store parts. Tonight we just finished spending a couple of hours trying to figure out how to squeeze bikes and gear into bike boxes to slide under the Greyhound. A few swear words later found the bikes shoved in and we pray that when we arrive in Calexico they will be in one piece.

A few weeks prior, I had grand visions of posting pictures and details of our planning process, but as the days came and went, I knew that my time was better spent actually planning and working instead of writing about planning and working. Sorry.

Now all that is left is to get ready to enjoy another new adventure, starting at 2pm tomorrow. This is the most nervous I've been for a trip since starting the Appalachian Trail. The butterflies are a good thing, and I'm so damn excited to put the bikes together in Calexico then ride across the border into Mexicali. Baja promises to be incredibly beautiful, and so will the rest of Latin America.

We've got a funky BlogLoc tracker that uses info from our SPOT tracker to put a dot on where we are for the day. You can click that pic for a bigger gmail map, and then navigate around it to your hearts content. Fun stuff.

wish us luck!