Greetings from Amanda Park WA! I think that it has warmed up to about 60 degree farenhiet here , so I would consider this a warm spell. So far we have had severa things that have been consistent on this trip and thatt is unforgiving rains and mechanical difficulties.
We have been riding for two days now and Brandon has had two flats and it has seemed to be raining non-stop, but I shouldn't complain too much because I am starting to see a break in the clouds. Maybe it is just me that is still wet because the tend was not as water-tight last night as we had first thought. our whole tent was soked and had had my taablet sitting next to me before I went to bed, but when I woke up, I pullled it out of a puddle of water next to my down sleeping bag. luckily my tablet still works, but my sleeping bag was a bit wet and I couldn't dry it out because it was like we were in the middle of a rain cloud with all the fog /humidity/rain that was around the camp. It took us a while but we eventually bit the bullet, packed everything up and headed out. we have gone 60 miles so far today and have about 15 left, slightly downhill too!
I want to also illustrate the resoursefullness of my good buddy brandon here. Today his clipless pedal fell apart. He had no way of keeping his foot on the pedal and he was left with just a slick plastic shoe and a a metal pedal. He ended up fixing his peda with a zip tie in a very ingenuitive fashion. He then later took a screw from a different pedal and moved it to the broken pedal and then he zip-tied both pedals.
As bleak as this post sounds we are really having a good time and we arrive in Aberdeen tomorow where we can restock on food and buy some badly needed bike parts for branndon. I think we are onlly about 35 miles away.
The even better news is that we have friends from BYU that are driving from Seattle to the Penninsula to camp with us tonight. Colin Barber and his wife Melanie are coming to see us. I am really excited and hope they brought some dry towels!
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